Server install & configure

This set of guides and recommendations is aimed at the use of Alpine for your local servers on physical hardware where you have access to the boot console.

A tabular guide to many of your options for your target install ’type’ when setting up Alpine Linux.

This configuration is like diskless mode except that home, parts of /var, and others are mounted for persistence. Also, like a data install with only parts of /var made persistent.

Easily create an encrypted LVM ‘sys’ (aka ‘classic’) install using Alpine Linux 3.16.0

For a semi-{data,diskless} setup you need to modify the standard ‘setup-alpine’ procedure. Here we provide the details.