Bare metal cloud-init
On using a Debian ‘cloud’ image and cloud-init on a ‘bare-metal’ host for fast deployment.
description = “Managing one’s own hosts in the cloud or on local hardware”
Self Hosting
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.
Choose installation type
A guide to some of your options for you target install ’type’ when using Alpine Linux
Add and use filesystem tools
You need to add the tools that will let you format/create one or more additional volumes/filesystems of your choice.
Alpine Linux as a server (41)
Daniel’s documentation for using Alpine Linux for local servers on x86-64 and Raspberry Pi family.
Important post-install configuration (5)
The following are not part of the base install, but either can be essential to system function (like adding boot entropy for some headless systems like the Raspberry Pi) or are widely accepted best practices (like creating a non-root admin user and limiting time spent as root).
Setup network required for package installation
Use the setup-* scripts to setup networking for bootstrap package installation on Alpine Linux
Use Alpine Linux on Raspberry Pi as a server (6)
Raspberry Pi-specific notes for preparing and installing Alpine Linux
Create a non-root admin user
It is an administrative best practise to avoid logging in and/or operating with elevated privileges, to the extent reasonable to do so. Therefore one needs a user that is not root for performing most operations.
Create semi-{data, diskless} install (2)
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.