yeah

oh its installed without a gemspec?

I hacked that together for the arch linux package

I always assumed the AIO packagea contain it, but never checked

oh wait, I think it may actually contain one so now I wonder if it's just a bug I should fix in Fedora's Puppet RPM

I do see /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/gems/2.7.0/specifications/puppet-7.23.0.gemspec

bastelfreak: o/ I am not much in this cloud thing and don't know who can provide FreeBSD 'pods'. Indeed Hetzner allows to install FreeBSD (my personal stuff is there and while I did not used much of what they provide this looks awesome compared to others i worked with, e.g. ovh)

oh hetzner is quite awesome

(I worked there)

Do you have a link to the doc about custom images at hand?

so there are a few options

opt/puppetlabs/server/data/puppetserver/dropsonde/gems/puppet-7.22.0

is a gemset for the dropsonde tool specifically. Nothing else uses that.

since they sponsor us it might make sense to use this and maybe allow them to provide the service (FreeBSD images out of the box) for everyone ?

we can upload a custom iso image and install servers with that. we can also take a snapshot, keep that, and use it for new instances

binford2k: yes, it just surprised me to find that

Ah, I installed with an iso image AFAIR. I signed-in and am looking at the options…

ewoud: not my favorite either, but 🤷♀️

smortex: https://docs.hetzner.com/cloud/servers/backups-snapshots/overview

Yeah, so it looks like we have to do a base insall, add an ssh key/password to the root account, allow ssh as root, powerdown the vm, remove the ISO, snapshot the vm, and use that snapshot.

I don't see an option to mount the boot volume of a vm on another vm in order to script this setup from a maintenance node.

(The "volumes" tab seems to only manage "extra" volumes)

That being said, I have only a single vm there so maybe the UI does not show options that do not make sense in my case

Can we use

packer

to make an image?

Not sure if there is Hetzner supported provider..

That seems to match :-)

as I see from the

image       = data.hcloud_image.packer_snapshot.id

there should be a way 🙂

ah, maybe it's a bit too late in the stack. it use a base image but there is no FreeBSD base images

so only question if packer can deal with FreeBSD installer 🙂