diff --git a/confluent_osdeploy/suse15/profiles/hpc/autoyast b/confluent_osdeploy/suse15/profiles/hpc/autoyast
index 9199d566..e485c8d7 100644
--- a/confluent_osdeploy/suse15/profiles/hpc/autoyast
+++ b/confluent_osdeploy/suse15/profiles/hpc/autoyast
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ dynamic behavior and replace with static configuration.
         <pattern>base</pattern>
       </patterns>
       <packages config:type="list">
+        <package>python3</package>
         <package>openssl</package>
         <package>chrony</package>
         <package>rsync</package>
diff --git a/confluent_osdeploy/suse15/profiles/hpc/scripts/functions b/confluent_osdeploy/suse15/profiles/hpc/scripts/functions
index 8148dae5..4c07e5e7 100644
--- a/confluent_osdeploy/suse15/profiles/hpc/scripts/functions
+++ b/confluent_osdeploy/suse15/profiles/hpc/scripts/functions
@@ -43,8 +43,8 @@ run_remote_config() {
     fi
     echo '---------------------------------------------------------------------------'
     echo Requesting to run remote configuration for "'$*'" from $mgr under profile $profile
-    /usr/libexec/platform-python $apiclient /confluent-api/self/remoteconfig/"$*" -d {}
-    /usr/libexec/platform-python $apiclient /confluent-api/self/remoteconfig/status -w 204
+    python3 $apiclient /confluent-api/self/remoteconfig/"$*" -d {}
+    python3 $apiclient /confluent-api/self/remoteconfig/status -w 204
     echo
     echo 'Completed remote configuration'
     echo '---------------------------------------------------------------------------'
diff --git a/confluent_osdeploy/suse15/profiles/hpc/scripts/prechroot.sh b/confluent_osdeploy/suse15/profiles/hpc/scripts/prechroot.sh
index 264fc7bd..2979a9b7 100644
--- a/confluent_osdeploy/suse15/profiles/hpc/scripts/prechroot.sh
+++ b/confluent_osdeploy/suse15/profiles/hpc/scripts/prechroot.sh
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ cp -a /tls /mnt/etc/confluent/
 cp -a /tls/* /mnt/var/lib/ca-certificates/openssl
 cp -a /tls/* /mnt/var/lib/ca-certificates/pem
 cp -a /tls/*.pem /mnt/etc/pki/trust/anchors
+cat /tls/*.pem > /mnt/etc/confluent/ca.pem
+cp /opt/confluent/bin/apiclient /mnt/etc/confluent
 
 run_remote setupssh.sh