According to this page https://rancher.com/docs/rancher/v2.5/en/cluster-provisioning/rke-clusters/node-pools/vsphere/, I should be able to do this.
URL of a RancherOS cloud-config file to provision VMs with. This file allows further customization of the RancherOS operating system, such as network configuration, DNS servers, or system daemons.
I created a cloudconfig with this content:
rancher:
network:
interfaces:
eth0:
address: 172.16.0.163/22
gateway: 172.16.0.1
mtu: 1500
dhcp: false
dns:
nameservers:
- 172.16.0.1
- 8.8.8.8
and put the URL into the Node Template. However, whenever I spin up a node from this template, every single thing set there is ignored. Am I missing something?