Make reusable deployment templates for Landscape and other applications
Every public cloud provider has a templating mechanism to deploy fully configured applications. For anyone interested in a vendor-neutral approach that works on major public clouds, cloud-init offers a good solution. Cloud-init makes your work re-usable regardless of the clouds you deploy to. It’s an open source configuration automation solution for Linux, which performs steps at various stages of a single machine’s boot up. In this article, I will explain how you can use cloud-init for re-usable single machine deployments. We will use cloud-init patterns to deploy Landscape, but the same process can be repurposed to deploy other applications.
Landscape is Canonical’s systems management solution for individuals or organisations that use Ubuntu. It provides access to a wide range of administrative functions that encompass inventory, automation, hardening, compliance, reporting, and software…
