Need: QCOW2 image for orchestrating Debian 11 Server image with following customizations 1. Minimal server installation + MATE Desktop Environment + xRDP + Firefox2. ‘apparmor’ disabled3. Install required packages – zip, unzip, net-tools, cloud-guest-utils, sudo4. Configure max number of open files and processes to 655365. SSH access to be enabled only from two specific subnets…
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Preparing custom Ubuntu 20.04 cloud image
Install Ubuntu 20.04 as detailed here. (Guest VM on KVM infra) Hard disk size: Based on trial and error identified that it would be better to have the base disk size as 3.5G Set default password for ‘root; account. sudo passwd Disable consistent device naming – Network interface names are same always (legacy – eth0,…
Orchestrating Guest VM(s) using simple scripts on KVM host.
As a developer, I had a need to spin up VMs as and when required. The more I started working on Kubernetes, the need to automate the spinning up of multiple VMs to bring up a setup for configuring a cluster. There were several options, solutions already available to automate the same on KVM. However,…