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The 2024 Web Hosting Report
To manage a VM, you can use something as simple as just manual actions over SSH, or can use tools like Ansible, Hashicorp's Packer and Terraform or other automations. For an app where there is minimal load and security/reliability concern, VMs are still a great option that provide a lot of value for the buck
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Avoiding DevOps tool hell
Server templating: Using Packer has never been easier to create reusable server configurations in a platform-independent and documented manner.
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How to create an iso image of a finished system
I'll give you hard, but rewarding and easy to modify(once you know what you're doing) way. Packer may be a thing you're looking for.
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13.2 ZFS root AMIs in AWS
It is straightforward to build them with packer (I have built AMIs for 13.0 and 13.1, but 13.2 should be exactly the same). I've been meaning to write a blog post about it for a while, but have not gotten to it yet... In any case, what I am doing is using the EBS Surrogate Builder to start an instance running the official FreeBSD 13.2 image with an extra volume attached and run a script to create a zpool on the extra volume and bootstrap and configure FreeBSD 13.2-RELEASE on it. After that packer takes care of creating an AMI out of that extra volume, so you can use it... If you have any issues, let me know, and maybe I will finally get to writing that blog post...
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DevOps Tooling Landscape
HashiCorp Packer is a tool for creating machine images for a variety of platforms, including AWS, Azure, and VMware. It allows you to define machine images as code and supports a wide range of configuration options.
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auto-provisioning multiple raspberry pi's
Packer is a tool that can be used to build machine images. Basically, it takes a base image, runs a series of steps to provision that image, and then burns a new image. In my workplace we use it heavily to build AWS AMIs. But it has an ARM plugin that looks to be very very suitable for building customised Raspberry Pi images (my quick read of the doco there says it can go ahead and write the final image to an SD card for you too).
- How do hosting companies immediately create vm right after purchasing one?
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Packer preseed file seems to not be read
Seems related to https://github.com/hashicorp/packer/issues/12118 But the workaround discribed in the comments doesn’t seems to work anymore
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How to create AMI which also copies the user data?
I'd suggest using a tool like Packer to build a gold image based on your base AMI and all your changes. Then you'll have your own AMI you can launch new instances with.
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Is migrate for compute engine M4CE suitable for migrating VMs (to GCP) which are part of auto scaling groups in AWS ?
Your assumption sounds correct. It sounds like you shouldn't focus on migrating specific instances, but instead migrating the template image used for autoscaling into GCP. I tend to prefer Packer for this job, or otherwise recreating the golden image directly on GCP.
cloud-init-vmware-guestinfo
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esxi 8.0, ubuntu cloud image, cloud-init
https://github.com/vmware-archive/cloud-init-vmware-guestinfo .. looks like it's part of cloud-init now. https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/pull/953
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Using cloud-init with vSphere and openSUSE 15.4
Unfortunately, VMware's new metadata source does not appear to function with this distribution. According to Canonical's changelog, _ cloud-init _ Version 21.3+ is required to recognize the new datasource. I tested with OpenSUSE 15.4 (Ships with _ cloud-init 21.4 _) and received the following error:
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How to create a golden image?
Finally, create and add the cloud-init payload either using an ISO-File or this vmware datasource provider (note the deprecated hint) to your cloned vm. At boot, Cloud-init will take care of the systems hostname, network etc.
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Ubuntu + DataSourceVMware via Terraform's extra_config
https://grantorchard.com/terraform-vsphere-cloud-init/ https://github.com/vmware-archive/cloud-init-vmware-guestinfo
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How to change Windows SID, Hostname, IP of a VM template during VM creation using VM template?
You can use CloudInit as well. Refer this https://github.com/vmware/cloud-init-vmware-guestinfo
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vmware-rpctool info-get guestinfo.userdata returns no value but works for ovfEnv
You may also want to ask or look at https://github.com/vmware/cloud-init-vmware-guestinfo which looks to be our implementation of cloud-init and vSphere, so those folks should be authority on how this should work for their solution :)
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Automating Ubuntu-20.04 live-server template generation with packer vsphere-iso build.
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What are some alternatives?
Vagrant - Vagrant is a tool for building and distributing development environments.
terraform-vsphere-ubuntu-example
helm - The Kubernetes Package Manager
packer-ubuntu20.04 - Packer vsphere-iso builder for Ubuntu-20.04
oVirt - oVirt website
packer-Win2019 - Packer configuration files for Windows Server 2019
kubernetes - Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management
vghetto-scripts - Various scripts for VMware based solutions
QEMU - Official QEMU mirror. Please see https://www.qemu.org/contribute/ for how to submit changes to QEMU. Pull Requests are ignored. Please only use release tarballs from the QEMU website.
cloudinit - Official upstream for the cloud-init: cloud instance initialization
Ansible - Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.
Moby - The Moby Project - a collaborative project for the container ecosystem to assemble container-based systems