Enable the suseconnect keep-alive timer. This serves 2 purposes, one it avoids systems that do not get updated freqeuently from getting purged from the update infrastructure, and two we get updated system data including whether or not SAP applications ar installed on he system. The later is telemetry data that is getting collected in data center systems and we want to provide the same information from Public Cloud systems.
There are few packages that directly depend on iptables, it was accidentally dropped from one of our images when we dropped docker. iptables is considered a fundamental tool and should always be in our images. Add it explicitly to the base configuration. Rename the package for suseconnect. The Golang implementation is available everywhere now.
A dependency change in SLE 15 SP5 exposed that it is possible to build our images without e2fsprogs by accident. We always want to have the ext filesystem tools in our images. Include e2fsprogs explicitly to ensure we are not exposed to dependency changes like this.