Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2023 07:51:12 +0200
From: Guido Trotter <ultrotter@debian.org>
To: Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org>
Cc: ~alpine/devel@lists.alpinelinux.org
Subject: Re: Proof of concept alpine non-interactive autosetup
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On Fri, Oct 06, 2023 at 05:48:49PM +0200, Natanael Copa wrote:

Hi Natanael,

> Nice to see that somebody finally figured out how to do this with apkovl!
> 

Thanks!

> > I have tested this on libvirt+kvm in diskless mode, but it should work
> > pretty much on any platform where the apkovl can be passed in either
> > directly or via an extra block device.
> > 
> > My initial proof of concept is at:
> > https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/ultrotter/alpine-autosetup
> > 
> > Let me know if you have thoughts, or ideas!
> 
> Since alpine 3.18 you can use tiny-cloud and attach a cidata volume
> similar to cloud-init's nocloud. This was implemented because the
> apkovl way appeared to be too hard for users in general.
> 

Thanks! I'll try also this and see if it works for me!
One little note is that this doesn't seem to be documented anywhere?
Or where can I find official info about it?

I would have expected to find a note here:
https://docs.alpinelinux.org/user-handbook/0.1a/Installing/medium.html

And/or a bit more on the wiki?
https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Installation

I can try to prepare a patch for the handbook if I try it out and make
it work.

What do you think?

Thanks,

Guido