Azure BYOS instance cannot be registered via SUSEConnect

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Environment

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3

Microsoft Azure

Situation

After changing from PAYG instance to BYOS or installing new one licenseType: SLES_BYOS is set.
Registration to SCC completes successfully, but after up to 1 minute the registration and repositories got removed.

Following info messages within /var/log/cloudregister

2022-11-24 10:02:01,000 INFO:Calling ['registercloudguest', '--clean']
2022-11-24 10:02:01,000 INFO:Calling ['systemctl', 'disable', 'guestregister']
2022-11-24 10:03:01,000 INFO:Calling ['registercloudguest', '--clean']
2022-11-24 10:03:01,000 INFO:Calling ['systemctl', 'disable', 'guestregister']
2022-11-24 10:04:01,000 INFO:Calling ['registercloudguest', '--clean']
2022-11-24 10:04:01,000 INFO:Calling ['systemctl', 'disable', 'guestregister']
...

Resolution

Stop regionsrv-enabler-azure.timer, then update to the latest cloud-regionsrv-client* packages available:

systemctl stop regionsrv-enabler-azure.timer
SUSEConnect -r <regcode>
SUSEConnect -p sle-module-public-cloud/15.3/x86_64
zypper update cloud-regionsrv-client cloud-regionsrv-client-addon-azure cloud-regionsrv-client-plugin-azure
systemctl start regionsrv-enabler-azure.timer

Note: Minimum required version of cloud-regionsrv-client-addon-azure is 1.0.4-150000.6.70.1

Other known workarounds are:
- Stop and disable the timer regionsrv-enabler-azure.timer
- Remove all cloud-regionsrv-client* addon-azure* packages

Cause

There was a bug in the addon logic that was responsible for removing repositories when they should not have been removed.

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