Create a custom ArchLinux boot image with linux-lts and OpenZFS support

December 21, 2022 2 minute read

I use ArchLinux on my desktop workstation. For the root filesystem, I use btrfs with luks disk encryption and wrote a blog post about it.

https://stafwag.github.io/blog/blog/2016/08/30/arch-on-an-encrypted-btrfs-partition/.

My important data is on OpenZFS.

I’ll migrate my desktop to ArchLinux with OpenZFS in RAIDZ configuration as the root filesystem.

To make installation easier I decide to create a custom ArchLinux boot image with linux-lts and OpenZFS support.

You’ll find my journey to create the boot iso below. All action are execute on a ArchLinux host system (already using OpenZFS)

Ansible role: users 1.1.0 released

November 10, 2022 3 minute read

The Ansible role stafwag.users is available at: https://github.com/stafwag/ansible-role-users

ChangeLog

lineinfile ‘create’ directive added

• create directive added.
• Update dir_mode perm to ‘0700’ to be compatible with newer ansible versions.
• Use string for perm mode to be compatible with newer ansible versions documentation updated

Have fun!

Ansible role: delegated_vm_install 1.0.0 released

October 16, 2022 3 minute read

I use KVM and cloud-init to provision virtual machines on my home network and wrote a few articles about it.

• Howto use centos cloud images with cloud-init on KVM/libvirtd
• Howto use cloud images on the Raspberry PI 4

on my blog on how to use cloud images with cloud-init on a “non-cloud” environment.

I created an Ansible role: ansible-role-virt_install_vm for it.

This role works great, but I wanted to have the possibility to provision the virtual machine in a delegated way.

For this reason I create the ansible role delegated_vm_install.

Delegated_vm_install 1.0.0 is available at: https://github.com/stafwag/ansible-role-delegated_vm_install

Have fun!

Debian bullseye on the RPI 4: golden image

July 24, 2022 9 minute read

In my last blog post, we set up Debian bullseye with full disk encryption on a Raspberry PI 4.

I use 3 three Raspberry PI’s to run K3s and a few FreeBSD virtual machines. For the FreeBSD virtual machines I still use QEMU: https://stafwag.github.io/blog/blog/2021/03/14/howto_run_freebsd_as_vm_on_pi/, I still need to test if we can use KVM/libvirt with the UEFI improvements in FreeBSD 13.1. But that might be another blog post :-)

As need I the same installation at least three times, I decided to create a “golden image” with the most important tools.

Debian bullseye on the RPI 4 with full disk encryption.

July 3, 2022 19 minute read

Updated @ Sun Jul 17 07:51:58 PM CEST 2022: Added blkid section UUID cryptroot. Changed dropbear port to 2222.

I use a few Raspberry PI’s 4 to run virtual machines and k3s.

I was using the Manjaro Linux with full disk encryption but I’ll switch to Debian GNU/Linux, the main reason is that libvirt is currently broken on archlinuxarm.

You’ll find my journey to get Debian GNU/Linux bullseye up and running on the Raspberry PI with full disk encryption below.