Hi!
I’m running the following:
- CentOS 7 with NetworkManager enabled
- Rancher 2.3.6
- Kubernetes 1.17.4
- Docker 19.3.8
- The nodes are provisioned using VMware templates and the Rancher vSphere provisioner
In our VLAN we use dnsmasq for DHCP/DNS. We have established a “VLAN IP Plan” which means that when we provision a new node, either manually or automatically from within Rancher, we want a node with a given name to always receive the same IP. According to the NetworkManager manuals this will be accomplished by setting the following properties on a NetworkManager connection such as:
ipv4.dhcp-hostname “” (empty string means that it should use the Rancher set hostname)
ipv4.dhcp-send-hostname true
Is it possible to specify the required cloud-init network settings (ipv4.dhcp-* settings above) “somewhere” which may be picked up during the provisioning phase as it’s cloud-init’s responsibility to create/instantiate a network connection based on available network device(s).
As I haven’t been able find a solution myself, the current provisioning doesn’t work as the node(s) being provisioned through Rancher gets an “arbitrary” IP (based on the VLAN range) effectively ignoring our IP/host plan residing in dnsmasq.
I feel I’m missing something here so any help on solving this would be very helpful!!!