the_maxtor blog

Intro As promised in the previous blog post, let’s see how to create a VM, starting from a template, and using Cloud-Init to configure basic settings at the first run. What’s Cloud-Init? Cloud-Init is a powerful tool for automating the initial configuration of virtual machines (VMs) in cloud environments. It is designed to customize a VM when it first boots by executing scripts and applying configurations based on user-supplied metadata. This enables dynamic provisioning of instances without manual intervention. [Read More]

Intro Lately I was revisiting my VM templates in Proxmox that I created some time ago. I used to create them with a mix of steps done with the Web interface and some done through the CLI, but this time I wanted to check if there was a way to do everything through CLI, for consistency and also to be quicker. The templates I was focused on were for Linux VMs and I also wanted to use the cloud image provided by Ubuntu or Debian, so that I can leverage the cloud-init feature. [Read More]

During Winter break I deployed a couple of services in my LAN that I want to make accessible from the internet. I did not want to use Cloudflare tunnel but I still want to use my own domain without using a dynamic IP service. So after I’ve deployed the services, I created the DNS record and a scheduled job to keep those records updated with the current public IPv4 of my home connectivity. [Read More]

A personal blog has been in my endless TODO list for years. For some reason, eventually I made it. What triggered me was reading about Publii, a multi platform software to create web site, for my poor knowledge, quite similar to Wordpress, but with a big difference: the CMS software is installed on a PC/Mac and then the site is generated. No server side code to be executed. Interesting. I give it a chance. [Read More]

This space exists because I want somewhere to store my notes, some thoughts about my hobbies and the research I do in the meantime. It’s almost about tech related stuff, starting from how to use and improve old systems like Amiga computers, going through 3d printing and ending in stuff like using Oracle Cloud to learn terraform and store some useful service. It is not going to be structured, I will not spend much time on my notes before putting them here, probably I will not even have a writing style. [Read More]