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| 1 | 33 | |
| 1 | 3,212 | |
| - | 2.6% | |
| 2.6 | 9.7 | |
| over 3 years ago | 7 days ago | |
| Python | Python | |
| BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License | Apache License 2.0 |
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cloudinit
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Carefully but Purposefully Oxidising Ubuntu
NixOS builds on efforts of things like https://cloud-init.io/ no? Or was one before the other?
- Cloud-init: the standard for customising cloud instances
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Tell HN: Ubuntu 24.04 force enables password auth, need to disable differently
This comes from the `ssh_pwauth` setting in cloud-init. Docs: https://cloudinit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference/modules...
The PR https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/pull/1618 implemented using a "sshd_config.d" file.
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Setting Up The Home Lab: Setting up Kubernetes Using Ansible
In my previous article I went over how to set up VMs in Proxmox VE using Terraform to deploy the VMs and Cloud-Init to provision them. In this article I'll discuss using Ansible playbooks to do further provisioning of VMs.
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Setting Up The Home Lab: Terraform and Cloud-Init
In my last article I talked about getting Terraform set up on Proxmox VE. In this article I want to talk about how I got Cloud-Init set up to use with my Terraform templates.
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Multipass + Cloud-Init
Multipass is a mini-cloud on your workstation using native hypervisors of all the supported plaforms (Windows, macOS and Linux). Multipass can launch and run virtual machines and configure them with cloud-init like a public cloud.
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Setting up the home lab: Terraform
And there you have it! In my next article I'll show you how to provision your VMs using Cloud-Init
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Industry Standard for Cloud Instance Initialization: Cloud-Init
[1] Cloud-Init: https://github.com/canonical/Cloud-Init [2] AutoMQ: https://github.com/AutoMQ/automq [3] Introduction to Cloud-Init: https://cloudinit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/explanation/introduction.html#how-does-Cloud-Init-work
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Custom RAM boot PXE Linux
Newer versions of OS use cloud init -> https://cloud-init.io/
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The Reluctant Sysadmin's Guide to Securing a Linux Server
Overall, I think in an article that focuses on cloud computing (specifically AWS) there's too much time being spent in the local command line of a server.
It's an especially revealing sentence when the authors says that "Most attacks won’t be against what we’ve covered in this guide, but against the applications you install next. Properly done, containers can limit the impact."
If we are running containerized applications and we are already in the cloud, why are we futzing around on the command line of a Linux box? Why are we not using a cload orchestrator that abstracts the OS from the equation entirely?
If we do have a need to be on a bare Linux box, all of this OS configuration is better handled with cloud init [1], a configuration management tool like Ansible, and/or by building an image with Packer.
I know that seems like overkill for a small hobby reluctant sysadmin project type of deal but it's very little extra effort once you get used to the workflow. I would even recommend putting this infrastructure in Terraform even though, again, it seems like overkill at first.
Someone else in the comments mentioned that it's easier to just start with a hardened image from the AWS Marketplace, and I also agree with that idea. Find a free hardened image and make that the base for your system.
[1] https://cloud-init.io
What are some alternatives?
virt-lightning - Starts your VM on libvirt in a couple of seconds!
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.
wolt-python-package-cookiecutter - Cookiecutter for rapidly creating modern & high-quality Python packages
Cloud-Init - unofficial mirror of Ubuntu's cloud-init
govcookiecutter - A cookiecutter template for data science projects within His Majesty's Government and wider public sector.
letsencrypt - Certbot is EFF's tool to obtain certs from Let's Encrypt and (optionally) auto-enable HTTPS on your server. It can also act as a client for any other CA that uses the ACME protocol.