Templates for hcloud

My templates for hcloud using Packer, Ansible and Terraform

This repo uses

• Packer for creating a snapshot in hcloud that can be used to create servers from
• Ansible as Packer provisioner for preparing the image in rescue system that can be reused for hcloud servers
• Terraform for creating a hcloud server from the snapshot (via label)
• Ansible connecting directly to the server to run playbook

Templates

Only one template available for the time being.

Template for hosting containers with ZFS

• cloud-init for installing ufw and zfsutils-linux, and importing the pool
• Will make small partition for / (10G)
• Will make a large partition for ZFS (maximum)
• One dataset is mounted at /home for using rootless containers in Podman
• LXD installed and configured (ansible-install-containers.yml)
• Install Podman with ZFS storage backend (ansible-install-containers.yml)

Installation

• add file secret.pkrvars.hcl and terraform.tfvars with content hcloud_token = "xyz"
• add file secret.env with content HCLOUD_TOKEN=xyz