Ubuntu 22.04 Cloud-Init vSphere vCD Customization Hell

This article about who want to still continute to have cloud-init with Ubuntu 22.04 and want to make customization when using VMware Cloud Director.

This article also could show some very simple things also show what is it ? and why i’m doing this things.

Everything started with How i could make customization with Ubuntu 22.04 without uninstall cloud-init.

Main problem is you will feel like everyting will work after customization but cloud-init will set to DHCP after next reboot kb 71264 !
Please read this links without getting bored 1 , 2 Somehow cloud-init feels need to recustomize vm and because of there is no input that time from VMware cloud-init will try to recustomize network settings and set to DHCP 😀

First link of course from VMware, always need to query about Guest OS Customization, use this link and related os and vCenter versions. For Ubuntu 22.04 support links contents are not enough.

Short before customization what you should do;

Activated root password and root password based logging before execute each commands next and deleted installation time created user. To delete installation time created use after activate root, i rebooted server and then delete it.