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<span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt;">Hey all!</span>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt;">Just a general question for those managing Linux servers - what has your experience been with NetworkManager in the server environment?<br><br>I'm running AlmaLinux (RHEL clone) as our primary OS and just recently started transitioning to Alma 9, where the old /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts ifcfg files are supposedly depreciated and networking *should* be done through NetworkManager. I haven't had any issue for generic VM guests with simple IP assignments, but anything more complex just seems to get increasingly tedious. For example, bonded-vlan-bridge interfaces with policy based routing has become massive scripting project in Puppet & Ansible.</span>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt;">I see a few projects exist to restore some of the original config capability, like the NetworkManager-dispatcher-routing-rules package, and I know there's a way to use keyfiles to generate NM connections but, is anyone using them or are you running nmcli commands? Or ditching NM altogether and restoring systemd-network where possible?</span>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt;">Thanks!</span>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt;">Scott Tanner<br>Sys Admin<br> </span>
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