Bare metal cloud-init
On using a Debian ‘cloud’ image and cloud-init on a ‘bare-metal’ host for fast deployment.
Deploying and provisioning systems, especially with automation
On using a Debian ‘cloud’ image and cloud-init on a ‘bare-metal’ host for fast deployment.
How Daniel uses Ansible to develop, test, and deploy his own mail servers, calendar/addressbook, websites, git archive server, and more.
Learning experiments in using bespoke code & data under version control to consistently deploy virtual and bare metal hosts and the applications on them.
Generating OVH API tokens for use with Terraform and other applications.
Since OpenStackSDK should theoretically make life easier for doing Infrastructure via Code, this is approach which which this learning effort has begun.
We start with a separate script that only generates userdata (no instance creation).
On using Packer to create the base images Daniel uses for personal ‘cloud’ infrastructure.
Continuing with the a bare bones OpenStackSDK-based deployment of instances
Further improvements to an OpenStackSDK-based ‘bare bones’ instance deployment
Adding security groups to an OpenStackSDK-based instance deployment