Preparing a SLE 15 SP7 template for use with Rancher and vSphere

prepare.sh

echo "** installing required packages"
SUSEConnect -p sle-module-public-cloud/15.7/x86_64
sudo zypper install cloud-init cloud-init-config-suse open-vm-tools open-iscsi

echo "** enabling services"
systemctl enable cloud-init-local.service
systemctl enable cloud-init.service
systemctl enable cloud-config.service
systemctl enable cloud-final.service
systemctl disable firewalld
systemctl daemon-reload

echo "** disabling swap"
swapoff -a
sed -i '/ swap / s/^\(.*\)$/#\1/g' /etc/fstab

echo "** reset machine settings"
sudo truncate -s 0 /etc/machine-id
sudo rm /var/lib/dbus/machine-id 
sudo ln -s /etc/machine-id /var/lib/dbus/machine-id 
sudo rm /var/lib/wicked/*.xml
cloud-init clean -s -l