Prepare OpenSuse 15.6 for Ansible

Steps for preparing an OpenSUSE 15.6 VM created from the official cloud images for Ansible management.

VM Preparation

DNS Config

Use yast or edit /etc/sysconfig/network/config to set the DNS-server

OpenSUSE Documentation

Python

A new Python version is required, install python312 using zypper

Guest Tools

Mount the guest-tools ISO
Run the install script with ./install.sh -m sles -d 15

Generic Ansible preparation

  1. Generate a Yggdrasil private key
  2. Create VM in Netbox