vm-ansible/roles/common/tasks/disable-cloudinit.yaml

---
- name: disable cloudinit
  copy:
    content: ""
    dest: /etc/cloud/cloud-init.disabled
    force: no

- name: disable network autoconfig
  copy:
    content: "network: {config: disabled}"
    dest: /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg.d/99-disable-network-config.cfg
    force: no
...