(auto)Installing BSD Systems
The auto-installation methods you can use to set BSD operating systems up and running
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After more than a decade in touch with systems like FreeBSD, not by just consuming them as an end-user but also by working as a sysadmin or by developing 'BSD Powered' solutions, you might fall into pitfalls by not easily finding a way to fully automate their installations. The good news: it's possible and it's not as complicated as you might think!
Today's needs regarding automating things like an O.S. installation can save you a lot of time; Kickstart or Preseed files are not the only ways of doing it. One can even combine or expand it all to add patching and updating routines into the game.
Here we are not talking about a one-click solution or something like querying an API endpoint to provide you with a shiny virtual machine; no. The main idea behind this talk is to present you with a tool-set and ways of (auto)installing your machines, let's say, using a NetBSD operating system; be it virtual, or not.
Inspired by talks like the ones showing how OpenBSD Amsterdam sets its virtual machines up, we get together and share thoughts, ideas and setups to get DHCP, iPXE and diskless systems in our favor to set our infrastructure up and running.
Concerned about the first boot and keeping up with services' configurations and consistencies, we also talk about getting Puppet to watch it for you. Considering plain text passwords no one wishes to host in a Git repository, EYAML to the rescue!
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* https://share.riseup.net/#Uomo3eX77PLcgicqNFdVXw
* https://share.riseup.net/#rPDzTIcRGEzTYkoUD2MwLw
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EuroBSDCon 2021 - (auto)Installing BSD Systems
1. (auto)Installing BSD Systems
(auto)Installing BSD Systems
The auto-installation methods you can use to set BSD operating systems up and running
EuroBSDCon 2021 – https://2021.eurobsdcon.org – (auto)Installing BSD Systems – Vinícius Zavam – https://keybase.io/egypcio
31. System hostname = sapupara.domingolegal
Password for root = $2b$14$Z4xRMg8vDpgYH...GVot3ySoj8yby
Change the default console to com0 = yes
Which speed should com0 use = 19200
Setup a user = baiacu
Password for user = meuXuxuzinh0
Public ssh key for user = ssh-ed25519 AAAA...Acre
What timezone are you in = America/Fortaleza
Location of sets = http
HTTP Server = 10.123.123.10
Use http instead = yes
Set name(s) = -x*
(auto)Installers – OpenBSD
https://www.openbsd.org/artwork.html
32. ●
The OpenBSD Hypervisor in the wild, a short story
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EuroBSDCon 2019
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Mischa Peters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TuWCR9X-wY
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OpenBSD: add VMM to ‘packer’
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EuroBSDCon 2019
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Philipp Buehler
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNmeFi3C1Xg
(auto)Installers – OpenBSD
https://www.openbsd.org/artwork.html
33. ●
FuguIta Start Guide
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OpenBSD Live System – FuguIta
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Yoshihiro Kawamata
http://fuguita.org
(auto)Installers – OpenBSD
https://www.openbsd.org/artwork.html
38. Artwork’s Artist and Copyrights
Artwork’s Artist and Copyrights
https://www.drachenmagier.ch
https://ko-fi.com/drachenmagier/shop
39. (auto)Installing BSD Systems
(auto)Installing BSD Systems
The auto-installation methods you can use to set BSD operating systems up and running
EuroBSDCon 2021 – https://2021.eurobsdcon.org – (auto)Installing BSD Systems – Vinícius Zavam – https://keybase.io/egypcio