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+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #2014701 +++

Description of problem:
As we're moving toward dropping legacy ifcfg support in RHEL, one major sticking point is that cloud-init does not support configuring NetworkManager directly using NM keyfiles. This omission means that cloud-init requires the ifcfg-rh plugin to remain enabled to correctly configure the network.

In order for RHEL to be able to turn off the ifcfg-rh functionality, we need for cloud-init to work without relying on that.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
21.1-18.el9

Additional info:
This relates to the following Changes from Fedora:
* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/NetworkManager_keyfile_instead_of_ifcfg_rh
* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/NoIfcfgFiles

Lubomir Rintel has submitted a pull request to add support for NetworkManager in cloud-init: https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/pull/1224

In Fedora, this is now implemented with cloud-init-22.1-1: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/cloud-init/c/b954b98a1c25b8db753dcd4545e2a72bbd0a2790

The pull request to add support for NetworkManager to cloud-init has been merged: https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/pull/1224#event-6142274645