Ubuntu Autoinstall Notes

The problem Ubuntu modern auto-installation is not a perfectly documented system. Some features also appear to be broken, so these examples rely on extensive use of user-data passed directly into cloud-init for things that are advertised to work as actual autoinstall settings. This page seeks to provide some filler to the gaps in documentation encountered when I started down the path of hands-off server provisioning into a traditional VMware vSphere environment on par with what is done for RHEL....

November 28, 2021 · Kodiak Firesmith

Netplan Notes

Netplan is an interesting abstraction to networking on Ubuntu Linux. Pros: YAML, fairly straightforward, flexible. Cons: One more Canonical-centric abstraction to manage. Read more at https://netplan.io/ Netplan config file examples Basic Static Network 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 --- network: version: 2 renderer: networkd ethernets: enp1s0: dhcp4: false addresses: [192.168.122.50/24] nameservers: addresses: [1.1.1.1] routes: - to: default via: 192....

November 20, 2021 · Kodiak Firesmith