@EddieJennings said in Script for Creating VMs from Template VM in KVM:

@travisdh1 said in Script for Creating VMs from Template VM in KVM:

@EddieJennings said in Script for Creating VMs from Template VM in KVM:

@Pete-S said in Script for Creating VMs from Template VM in KVM:

Not the exactly the same thing but you might want to look into how to create a VM from scratch.
Meaning a script that will set up a VM with vCPU, memory, storage, network etc and then boot it from iso and have it do an unattended install, create what users you want and install the packages you need.

That's one of the next things I'm looking into.

@EddieJennings Also remember about things like kickstart in RedHat based operating systems. In Fedora/CentOS/RHOS you can use a kickstart file to automatically select all the install time options for the OS. A short time later you've got a fresh server and all the time it took you to setup was running the creation script on your hypervisor.

One of the things I'll need to figure out going the Kickstart route is setting the hostname what I want it to be at the time of installation. Likely not difficult to do, I just have to figure it out. Or perhaps, I can just truly take the approach of just making a clean minimal install, and then later configure to whatever specific thing I'm wanting the VM to do for my lab / testing.

Inside the kickstart file you'll find something like this:

network --hostname=centos8-4.example.com

We use debian as our goto and then it's called a preseed file. The only real thing that can be tricky is to tell the installation what kickstart/preseed file you want to use. You can do it in different ways. If you don't want to rely on dhcp/tftp/pxe etc you can roll your own iso file. I think the kickstart file can also be mounted as a drive that the installation will detect when it starts.

I think the best approach is to make an automated installation with same basic settings and some of those will get changed later in the installation. For example you can use a fixed hostname that is later changed from ansible.

@WrCombs said in what is automation? How does it work?:

@scottalanmiller said in what is automation? How does it work?:

@WrCombs said in what is automation? How does it work?:

@Dashrender said in what is automation? How does it work?:

There are multiple ways to get automation. Simplest might be to write a script that copies files and execute that script using Task Scheduler (a windows service that allows you to execute tasks based upon a specific schedule).

Thanks - Got more information now:
I need to be able to automatically send a folder to compressed zip.
Then automate the import and publish.

The more information I get the more confused I become about all of this.

The first step to automating a task is defining how you would do it manually. Start there. That doesn't mean the automation will just copy that, but it helps to understand what you are doing today, before you figure out how to do it automatically tomorrow.

Do it here?
I mean, That's fine with me.

I would make a new thread about that specific task, and you could toss a link in here to that.

@stacksofplates said in Automated Provisioning - KVM & CM tools:

@fuznutz04 said in Automated Provisioning - KVM & CM tools:

@stacksofplates said in Automated Provisioning - KVM & CM tools:

Terraform will do this and I have an Ansible role to do it also.
As @IRJ mentioned Vagrant will work also. However I feel Terraform is a better fit as you have more control over the specific pieces of your infrastructure.

You would still prefer Terraform over Ansible for this as well?

Yeah. My role can create the VMs, but Terraform had more functionality for that. Ansible overlaps in the infrastructure provisioning space a lot, but it lacks keeping states like Terraform does.

I'd like to learn both. I just started with Ansible a day or two ago. I have been (and still am) using SaltStack.

Worth noting on this that while sync works, copy is the much safer option.

So

rclone copy source:/path dest:/path is what I'll likely end up using. In any case, the resulting solution still works.

Still need to tweak OSX a bit as it seems to kill the SSH session after some time for sporadic reasons - still testing but I may end up having to add ServerAliveInterval 120 to /etc/ssh/ssh_config to resolve that issue.

@JaredBusch said in VPS injected ssh keys:

Under no circumstances do I actually want anyone's key tied to the root user. It negates all accountability.

It's for pre-production setup. Not for deploying straight to production.

This is a good starter video:

Youtube Video

@scottalanmiller said in Automation For Lights?:

@Dashrender said in Automation For Lights?:

@scottalanmiller said in Automation For Lights?:

I sleep with a smart watch on my wrist and a phone under my pillow. I am bound to wake up.

Phone under pillow would never work for me.. two things 1) I move so much the phone would be under the bed for sure, 2) it would be to muffled and I'd sleep through any vibration.

The watch though... that might help.

I move a lot and it stays put. I don''t have a case, so the phone is very smooth. It doesn't shift around from the pillow moving.

I can wake up from vibrations from a phone a floor away so....

lucky/unlucky you... I could sleep through a tornado taking the roof off.

I'm marking this solved as I create a direction from / called scripts and that does what I need.

No real need for a public shareable desktop when this works just fine.

@DustinB3403 said in What is the difference between Dead and Failed for service status?:

@IRJ Did you look at journalctl to see what the logs say?

He doesn't care about why things are failed. He just wants the states. It is for monitoring and automation.

Added extra step of renaming file and deleting long garbage file name.

@flaxking said in Which is easier to learn Ansible or Chef or Puppet:

The whole container/CM thing is kind of at a weird place right now. With containers, we've sort of migrated back to the golden image thing, just with the pressure to create an image using a config file. I don't really like images on docker hub that don't have links to the dockerfile.

Yes, images that can't be tweaked without rebuilding. It's has benefits, and a lot of caveats. Having to deploy new containers for every patch is pretty silly. And so many things can't be immutable, including the platform on which the containers run.

At the end of the day, containers are either mutable, or immutable. The former need CM inside the container, the later need it outside the container.

FreePBX's jail.local doesn't use that syntax.

[root@pbx ~]# cat /etc/fail2ban/jail.local # Configuration automatically generated via the Sysadmin Module # This file will be overwritten by Sysadmin on startup. If you modify # this file, your changes will be lost. DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! # generated: Thu, 21 Jun 2018 02:53:21 +0000 [DEFAULT] ignoreip = 127.0.0.1 bantime = 3600 findtime = 600 maxretry = 5 backend = auto [asterisk-iptables] enabled = true filter = asterisk-security action = iptables-allports[name=SIP, protocol=all] sendmail[name=SIP, [email protected], [email protected]] logpath = /var/log/asterisk/fail2ban

@dustinb3403 said in Getting PowerShell to provide me the EventLog details in an email:

Yup. . . I'm an idiot lol. I set it to only look back 1 day and email me those results within the past day.

This obviously would show blank results, since there are no 2013 events within the past day!

Ha ha ha. Whoops!

@wrx7m I only have one zwave device which is a smart lock.
@Obsolesce I use Home Assistant and love it. Easy to setup and configure. I tried openHAB but couldn't figure it out.
@NerdyDad I've been looking into NodeRed for controllable leds

I update and reboot weekly where I can.

There are a few systems that fall out of this process though.

@scottalanmiller said in Freepbx Voicemail Storage Warning:

@bigbear said in Freepbx Voicemail Storage Warning:

@reid-cooper said in Freepbx Voicemail Storage Warning:

@bigbear said in Freepbx Voicemail Storage Warning:

@scottalanmiller said in Freepbx Voicemail Storage Warning:

Good point, is there a reason that you don't just grow the storage?

Not possible with Vultr instance, right? Have to expand while virtual machine?

With Vultr, you can add block storage on a per GB bases as needed. So yes, you can do it with Vultr without expanding the VM itself.

Yeah I guess he is probably in NJ data center. I've only used block storage in winblows server. Not sure how you'd move that location in FreePBX.

LVM

Yep, I did this exact thing on a server with Vultr block storage. It is super easy. Purchase it, attach it to the server, create a mount point and mount the new storage device (shows up as another drive), then done.

In FreePBX Advanced settings, you can even specify an alternative destination for voicemails.

Great