Description of problem:

While using the OpenShift console to configure the network using cloud-init (Add network data in scripts), cloud-init network configuration is failing with the error below:

~~~
2023-07-13 12:26:57,206 - util.py[DEBUG]: failed stage init-local
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/cloudinit/cmd/main.py", line 767, in status_wrapper
ret = functor(name, args)
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/cloudinit/cmd/main.py", line 433, in main_init
init.apply_network_config(bring_up=bring_up_interfaces)
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/cloudinit/stages.py", line 926, in apply_network_config
self.distro.networking.wait_for_physdevs(netcfg)
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/cloudinit/distros/networking.py", line 142, in wait_for_physdevs
physdevs = self.extract_physdevs(netcfg)
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/cloudinit/distros/networking.py", line 46, in extract_physdevs
return net.extract_physdevs(netcfg)
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/cloudinit/net/_init_.py", line 660, in extract_physdevs
raise RuntimeError("Unknown network config version: %s" % version)
RuntimeError: Unknown network config version: 1
~~~

The issue looks to be because it is passing the version as a string:

~~~
oc get vm centos-stream8-qmcxprlgjecesuj4 -o yaml|yq '.spec.template.spec.volumes[1]'
cloudInitNoCloud:
networkData: |
network:
version: '1' <===
config:

• type: physical
  name: eth0
  subnets:
• type: static
  address:
• 192.168.0.1
  gateway: 192.168.0.10
  ~~~

And cloud-init is expecting an integer https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/blob/e2adc9725d204486e02d3098e2a95dc63ee4af7a/cloudinit/net/__init__.py#L623.

Editing the VM yaml and changing it to version : 1 fixes the problem.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

OpenShift Virtualization 4.13.2

How reproducible:

100 %

Steps to Reproduce:

Try to configure the network using `Add network data` from OpenShift console. Check the cloud-init logs in the VM.

Actual results:

cloud-init network configuration is failing with error "Unknown network config version: 1"

Expected results:

Configuring network should work.

Additional info: