Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2019 15:43:25 +0100
From: Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org>
To: Tuan Hoang <tmhoang@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: alpine-devel@lists.alpinelinux.org
Subject: Re: [alpine-devel] unattended installs  (WAS: Should
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On Fri, 8 Mar 2019 17:00:47 +0100
Tuan Hoang <tmhoang@linux.ibm.com> wrote:

> I would love to hear opinions from Alpine dev team on this matter.
> 
> What's in my mind is something like established method like kickstart
> (and preseed too?).
> 
> Something like, you have an init service that watches for kernel parm
> 'auto_inst'. If there is, it starts the automated installer for you (and
> somehow can reuse our setup-* scripts), with a provided configuration
> file. Could be like 'auto_inst=https://yoursite.com/auto_inst.conf'. I
> think this would be a nice fit for Alpine.

We currently have support for "answer" files. This was added as a hack,
and I would like to replace it.

I think it would be cool if you could provide alpine with an coud-init
yaml file and it would install it based on that.

I don't know if cloud-init format is the best or if there are any other
alternatives to consider. I just think we should not invent our own
format for this.

-nc


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