Hello there! I'm trying to configure cloud-config on rancher to use with vsphere Most things work but I can't set my specific network configuration I tried pasting this into the Node Template Cloud-config box and also into an extra parameter called

guestinfo.metadata

base64 encoded with

guestinfo.metadata.encoding: base64

as well as

gzip+base64

network:
  version: 2
  ethernets:
    nics:
      match:
        name: ens*
      dhcp4: yes
      critical: true
      dhcp-identifier: mac

Testing it on vSphere directly works, but with Rancher it does not What am I missing?

This looks like netplan from Ubuntu?

yeap

Check this blog post by @agreeable-oil-87482. He is doing exactly what you are doing with Ubuntu for vcentre https://www.virtualthoughts.co.uk/2020/03/29/rancher-vsphere-network-protocol-profiles-and-static-ip-addresses-for-k8s-nodes/