Ansible role: delegated_vm_install 1.1.0 released

January 29, 2023 4 minute read

I use KVM and cloud-init to provision virtual machines on my home network. I migrated all my services to Raspberry PIs running GNU/Linux and FreeBSD to save power.

I first wanted to use terraform, but the libvirt terraform provider wasn’t compatible with arm64 (at least at that time).

So I started to create a few ansible roles to provision the virtual machines.

delegated_vm_install is a wrapper around these roles to provision the virtual machine in a delegated way. It allows you to specify the Linux/libvirt KVM host as part of the virtual machine definition.

Changelog

delegated_vm_install 1.1.0

• update_ssh_known_hosts directive added
  • update_ssh_known_hosts directive added to allow to update the ssh host key after the virtual machine is installed.
  • Documentation updated
  • Debug code added

Have fun!

Best wishes 2023!

January 1, 2023 less than 1 minute read

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!