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NGINX Virtual Machine Building with cloud-init

Quickly create fresh NGINX VMs on any cloud provider

The joy and burden of building new servers The initial build of a new application server requires multiple steps. First, the operating system must be installed. Then additional software packages ne...
Updated Aug 27, 2024
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amolari
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Jul 04, 2024

Thanks for the article. Could that be adapted to install Instance Manager ? The documentation provides guideline to use Packer (Image generation) and Terraform to build on the cloud, but IMHO cloud-init could be a viable alternative?

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Doug_Gallarda
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Jul 05, 2024

Yes, you can! Just add the following lines to your YAML file under the "sources" section:

    clickhouse:
      source: "deb https://packages.clickhouse.com/deb lts main"
      keyid: 8919F6BD2B48D754
    nms:
      source: "deb https://pkgs.nginx.com/nms/ubuntu $RELEASE nginx-plus"
      keyid: ABF5BD827BD9BF62

Then, add nms-instance-manager as the package to install.

I also add "/etc/nms/scripts/basic_passwords.sh as a runcmd to set the admin password.