Changes for page proxmox

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138 138  
139 139  After creating the VM and before making it into a template there are some programs and settings we want to ensure exists always.
140 140  
141 -(% id="cke_bm_721114S" style="display:none" %)** **(%%)**clear bash history** to not leave any configuration in history, clear and disable history file before proceeding:
141 +qemu-guest-agent is for allowing proxmox to query information from the VM such as IP address, shutdown commands, etc
142 142  
143 -**qemu-guest-agent** is for allowing proxmox to query information from the VM such as IP address, shutdown commands, etc
144 -
145 145  {{code language="bash"}}
146 146  sudo apt update
147 147  sudo apt upgrade -y
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151 151  sudo systemctl start qemu-guest-agent.service
152 152  {{/code}}
153 153  
154 -**reset machine-id** to not have overlapping ids from same template
152 +cloud-init is a great hook for installing or configuring programs or receiving variables from cloudinit CDROM drive. Making it easier to change IP, hostname, DNS, username/password, etc between VMs.
155 155  
156 -{{code language="bash"}}
157 -cat /dev/null > /etc/machine-id
158 -cat /dev/null > /var/lib/dbus/machine-id
159 -{{/code}}
160 -
161 -**cloud-init** is a great hook for installing or configuring programs or receiving variables from cloudinit CDROM drive. Making it easier to change IP, hostname, DNS, username/password, etc between VMs
162 -
163 -{{code language="bash"}}
164 -cloud-init clean
165 -{{/code}}
166 -
167 -This is a debian example of what we are looking for:
168 -
169 169  {{code language="yaml"}}
170 170  # The top level settings are used as module
171 171  # and system configuration.
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172 172  # A set of users which may be applied and/or used by various modules
173 173  # when a 'default' entry is found it will reference the 'default_user'
174 174  # from the distro configuration specified below
160 +users:
161 + - default
175 175  
163 +
176 176  # If this is set, 'root' will not be able to ssh in and they
177 177  # will get a message to login instead as the default $user
178 178  disable_root: true
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185 185   # which has been a source of surprise.
186 186   preserve_sources_list: true
187 187  
188 -# manually managed resolv
189 -manage_resolv_conf: false
176 +# If you use datasource_list array, keep array items in a single line.
177 +# If you use multi line array, ds-identify script won't read array items.
178 +# Example datasource config
179 +# datasource:
180 +# Ec2:
181 +# metadata_urls: [ 'blah.com' ]
182 +# timeout: 5 # (defaults to 50 seconds)
183 +# max_wait: 10 # (defaults to 120 seconds)
190 190  
191 -package_update: true
192 -packages:
193 - - qemu-guest-agent
194 194  
186 +
187 +
195 195  # The modules that run in the 'init' stage
196 196  cloud_init_modules:
197 197   - seed_random
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211 211  
212 212  # The modules that run in the 'config' stage
213 213  cloud_config_modules:
207 + - snap
208 + - ssh-import-id
214 214   - keyboard
215 215   - locale
216 216   - set-passwords
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221 221   - timezone
222 222   - disable-ec2-metadata
223 223   - runcmd
219 + - byobu
224 224  
225 225  # The modules that run in the 'final' stage
226 226  cloud_final_modules:
227 227   - package-update-upgrade-install
224 + - fan
225 + - landscape
226 + - lxd
228 228   - write-files-deferred
228 + - puppet
229 + - chef
230 + - mcollective
231 + - salt-minion
232 + - reset_rmc
229 229   - scripts-vendor
230 230   - scripts-per-once
231 231   - scripts-per-boot
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232 232   - scripts-per-instance
233 233   - scripts-user
234 234   - ssh-authkey-fingerprints
235 -# - keys-to-console
239 + - keys-to-console
236 236   - install-hotplug
237 -# - phone-home
241 + - phone-home
238 238   - final-message
239 239   - power-state-change
240 240  
241 -runcmd:
242 - - systemctl enable qemu-guest-agent.service
243 -
244 244  # System and/or distro specific settings
245 245  # (not accessible to handlers/transforms)
246 246  system_info:
247 247   # This will affect which distro class gets used
248 248   distro: debian
250 + # Default user name + that default users groups (if added/used)
251 + default_user:
252 + name: debian
253 + lock_passwd: True
254 + gecos: Debian
255 + groups: [adm, audio, cdrom, dialout, dip, floppy, plugdev, sudo, video]
256 + sudo: ["ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL"]
257 + shell: /bin/bash
249 249   # Other config here will be given to the distro class and/or path classes
250 250   paths:
251 251   cloud_dir: /var/lib/cloud/
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256 256   primary: https://deb.debian.org/debian
257 257   security: https://deb.debian.org/debian-security
258 258   ssh_svcname: ssh
268 +
259 259  {{/code}}
260 260  
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