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
Deploy
Automating a personal 'cloud' infrastructure (2)
How Daniel uses Ansible to develop, test, and deploy his own mail servers, calendar/addressbook, websites, git archive server, and more.
Infrastructure via Code (IvC) (12)
Learning experiments in using bespoke code & data under version control to consistently deploy virtual and bare metal hosts and the applications on them.
Tokens for OVH v1
Generating OVH API tokens for use with Terraform and other applications.
IvC: OpenStackSDK first steps
Since OpenStackSDK should theoretically make life easier for doing Infrastructure via Code, this is approach which which this learning effort has begun.
IvC: Adding trivial templating
We start with a separate script that only generates userdata (no instance creation).
Creating base VM images
On using Packer to create the base images Daniel uses for personal ‘cloud’ infrastructure.
IvC: Bare bones script (3)
Continuing with the a bare bones OpenStackSDK-based deployment of instances
But first, improving the script
Further improvements to an OpenStackSDK-based ‘bare bones’ instance deployment
Adding security groups
Adding security groups to an OpenStackSDK-based instance deployment