Ansible provides a more flexible way to fine-tune Hashicorp Packer images compared to cloud-init. Playbooks can be executed once the guest image building is ready and boots up for the first time. This allows to create different types of Packer images based on different playbooks. In this article, Packer images will created for Azure using…
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Terraform and libvirt nodes
Libvirt (libvirtd) nodes (based on KVM and Qemu) are a great and cheap (read: free) alternative of deploying virtual nodes in a cloud. Required is a server which will act as a hypervisor, in our article we chose to use a Hetzner server installed with Ubuntu Linux 20.4-lts. After the default installation of Ubuntu 20.4-lts,…