Utilizing NetworkManager as the only networking solution

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Hello all,

Quick rundown of what I am trying to accomplish

Objective: To connect a KVM hypervisor node to my management server.

I am receiving this error:

Configure Network ...         [Failed]
Missing bridge/device network configuration, need to add your network configuration into /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts at first
Try to restore your system:

I saw that the agent setup was attempting to setup cloudbr[01] as intended. I then looked at the code here and saw that for bridges it always disables NetworkManager:

cloudstack/python/lib/cloudutils/serviceConfig.py

Line 272 in 97c96a5

cfo.addEntry("NM_CONTROLLED", "no")

I am trying to accomplish the concurrent use of NetworkManager and OpenVSwitch. The documentation I have read seems to use ifcfg files to specify the information for each bridge. Here is an example:

https://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/en/4.20.0.0/installguide/hypervisor/kvm.html#configure-rhel-centos-for-advanced-networks

However, I am trying to avoid the use of ifcfg files per the following post:

https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/rhel-9-networking-say-goodbye-ifcfg-files-and-hello-keyfiles

Is there a way to completely utilize NetworkManager? I am attempting something similar to this:

#5443

I was under the impression if I had setup similar configs within NetworkManager that I could get past this, but the serviceConfig.py seems to have a stop/disable operation here:

cloudstack/python/lib/cloudutils/serviceConfig.py

Line 311 in 97c96a5

self.netMgrRunning = self.syscfg.svo.isServiceRunning("NetworkManager")

If I misread please let me know. I would like to use NetworkManager exclusively. Thanks.