Re: Advice about GuixSD on Serveraptor?

[ng0 <contact.ng0@cryptolab.net>]

Leo Famulari transcribed 2.0K bytes:
> On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 09:06:09PM +0000, ng0 wrote:
> > IN-Berlin wants a raw image (they have read our documentation).
> > The way their system works is that you sent
> > them your ssh pubkey, they initialize a basic Debian system depending on
> > the size you chose, and you can login once you get the hostname etc.
> > They have an out-of-band consoleserver where the ssh key is placed
> > aswell for the machine.
> > I don't work with this non-profit organization, but having a way to
> > define ssh pubkeys in the system config would be super useful for this.
> > Right now I'm about to create my own system and just sent it to them as
> > soon as I feel up to it.
> > If they could simply create the system in their infrastructure, that
> > would be an incredible speedup and reproducible.
> > I don't know much about the out of band consoleserver, I have to ask
> > if that's somehow relevant or if it simply needs some initrd settings to
> > expose it to the server.
> 
> Interesting! I'll probably take a look at this when I got some free
> time.

I'll write an email to IN-Berlin asking about the consoleserver this
week.
If it's nothing special, we could provide this bare image, and people
could download it as the GuixSD with ssh + whatever is needed for it to
work out in server context as a start.