From fffb8c5da7bf84b16607fbc4c411db580b3a2793 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vignesh Goutham Ganesh
 <72776369+vignesh-goutham@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2022 14:36:58 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Fix customize ubuntu docs to clean the vm properly (#3846)

---
 .../en/docs/reference/vsphere/customize-ovas.md | 17 ++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/docs/content/en/docs/reference/vsphere/customize-ovas.md b/docs/content/en/docs/reference/vsphere/customize-ovas.md
index 818c53863972..79d752757809 100644
--- a/docs/content/en/docs/reference/vsphere/customize-ovas.md
+++ b/docs/content/en/docs/reference/vsphere/customize-ovas.md
@@ -132,14 +132,29 @@ Restart containerd service with the `sudo systemctl restart containerd` command.
 
 After you have customized the VM, you need to convert it to a template.
 
-### Reset the machine-id and power off the VM
+### Cleanup the machine and power off the VM
 
 This step is needed because of a [known issue in Ubuntu](https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/82229) which results in the clone VMs getting the same DHCP IP
 
 ```
+sudo su
 echo -n > /etc/machine-id
 rm /var/lib/dbus/machine-id
 ln -s /etc/machine-id /var/lib/dbus/machine-id
+cloud-init clean -l --machine-id
+```
+
+Delete the hostname from file
+```
+/etc/hostname
+```
+Delete the networking config file
+```
+rm -rf /etc/netplan/50-cloud-init.yaml
+```
+Edit the cloud init config to turn `preserve_hostname` to false
+```
+vi /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg
 ```
 
 Power the VM down