While trying to get my Nextcloud instance to talk to an OpenCloud Test instance I had to dig a little deeper into the unterlying protocol: Open Cloud Mesh (or short OCM, details s. RFC-draft). TL;DR: For everyone keen to get things up and running: I didn’t succeed (yet). And though I really like the idea […]
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Unattended Ubuntu ISO
I recently built an unattended installation ISO to ease installation of Windows 11 test machines. So why not do the same for Ubuntu? While looking around I found solutions for Ubuntu 20.04 and 22.04. The 22.04 version basically works fine for Ubuntu 24.04. Nothing the less some modifications were required: the key server URL was […]
Recently I got access to an Openstack system and did my first steps on it. Maybe some of the things I learned so far are of interest to others. Using cloudinit for customization Cloud providers offer the possibility to alter the configuration of their VM images in a standardized way: cloudinit. This uses a simple […]