RHEL 7 and 8 machines in an Openstack environment through Cloud-init can automatically get all interfaces configured appropriately on a machine without the need for DHCP. Instead: it gets the static networking addresses for each of the interfaces passed through cloud-init and can configure all interfaces. The specific use case this client has is the ability to autoconfigure 3 interfaces with the information defined in the Openstack portal.

The problem is this does not work for RHCOS. Instead: the user must manually generate 3 system-connection files that get fed into network manager and statically configure the interfaces. This must be done for every interface on every machine and can be a manual, error prone process. This request for enhancement would involve adjusting afterburn for openstack to have the ability to also read static information at first boot and configure the network cards appropriately similar to what is done with cloud-init in RHEL 7 and 8 machines.

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Boot RHCOS image in Openstack in fixed IP mode without DHCP servers

Have to manually create system-connection files (afterburn cannot process vendor static network data)

After burn can process vendor network data and configure interfaces

This would ease booting machines in networking environments using static networking