[tech] Indolence at speed - Welcome to new idle-mudkip and idle-magikarp VMs

[Mark Tearle]

Hi folks

In the latest addition to the UCC Ansible SOE ( available at all good git repos and https://gitlab.ucc.asn.au/ucc-systems/ucc-ansible-soe ), I've added a two new roles 

roles/ucc_provision_idle_host
 * Grabs the Debian Buster network installer ISO image
 * Modifies it a bit to add a Debian preseed file and makes that autoboot
 * Adds initial set of wheel keys, etc
 * Automagically creates / configures  the VM on proxmox, boots, installs it, boots again
 * Installs a base set of software that folks are likely to want on a idle-host (let me know if something is missing)
roles/ucc_mounts_autofs 
 * Based on [333] Dylan's excellent work learning autofs, created a ansible role to do mounts of /home, /away and /services as appropriate
With this great power and great responsibility, I then proceeded to create two new UCC idle servers on our Proxmox cluster, idle-mudkip and idle-magikarp

Next steps are to blow away the existing idle-maltair and idle-medico servers and reinstall using the SOE.   However, some feedback from the regular users of the idle servers (matt, eedles and coffee) would be appreciated before I do that.

Anyhow, back onto poking DNS .... 

Cheers,
Mark

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Mark Tearle <mtearle at ucc.asn.au>
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