We use Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04 on a Hyper-V cluster managed by SCVMM 2012R2. We also use the template functionality to deploy new Ubuntu VMs quickly, see: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/system-center/vmm/vm-linux?view=sc-vmm-1807
Since Ubuntu 14.04 will be eol in a couple of months we are looking to upgrade/migrate those VMs to Ubuntu 18.04. While Ubuntu 18.04 seems to work fine in our environment, when installed manually, we cannot create new VM templates. Ubuntu 18.04 has had a few changes, mostly in the networking department. It no longer uses the /etc/network/interfaces file to configure the network but something called netplan, which has different config files and syntax.
Does anyone have any experience on how to deploy Ubuntu 18.04 VMs with any newer SCVMM version? Any workaround? If you don't do SCVMM templates with Linux VMs, what do you use instead?