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.