I’m wanting to create a centralized repository to keep base images of operating systems to be installed on new laptops or workstations bought/used in my household with my local CA already installed, configured to authenticate with my local FreeIPA instance, network configurations already configured, etc.

What do you all use to accomplish this? I’m only free/libre/open source software for my home lab, so that’s a requirement as well.

Ideally I’d like to be able to buy a computer, flash the latest and greatest from my repository onto a bootable thumb drive, install onto the computer, and be ready to go without any further configuration.

  • vividspecter@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    This is something NixOS excels at, but there is a bit of a learning curve. Maybe ansible as a non distro specific approach although I haven’t used it myself.

  • emhl@feddit.deEnglish
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    1 year ago

    If you want to use OpenSUSE leap as your OS autoyast is made for that: automatic installation and configuration of new systems without (or with minimal) attendence

    Or you could write an bash script that makes all those configurations and just run it after finishing the Install.

    An ansible playbook would be another option to do these configurations semi-automatically