Go-Between

Use OpenTofu and cloud-init to deploy virtual machines in a Proxmox hypervisor and populate them automatically with services.

Rubén Llorente

In the old days, before virtualization was practical, if you wanted to run a service, you installed an operating system (OS) on a physical machine and then manually installed the service. If more than one instance of the OS was required, you needed to purchase additional computers and repeat the process manually. As you might imagine, administering a large fleet of computers this way is unworkable in the long run, so automation tools were created. Fully Automatic Installation (FAI) [1] is a good example of an early, generic tool for deploying Linux distributions over a sizable number of machines. Tools such as FAI created for physical machines are of use when deploying virtual machines, as well, as are distro-specific tools (e.g., autoinstall for OpenBSD [2], preseed for Debian [3], Kickstart…

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