Automation

Setting up WireGuard is not a difficult process but I wanted to automate it among hosts by using a simple playbook that can be executed against the hosts and get it configured and deployed in a simple way. I also wanted to require the minimum possible number of values in the inventory, so tried to automate lot of the information required, leaving in the end only some required values: wireguard: True wgrole: 'master' or 'something else' wgport: port number to use The first step was to create the private and public key once the wireguard package is installed. ...

During last year I’ve worked with the https://github.com/openshift-kni/baremetal-deploy/ repository after being working in the KNI Community team that was in charge of <KubeVirt.io> and <Metal3.io> where some of the below things were applied. One of the goals we had was to streamline the upstream <-> downstream process to keep changes done in the right way: get changes upstream and copy over downstream with minimal changes. We ended up using AsciiDoctor for building the documentation in the same way it’s done downstream so it’s just a matter of copying over the modules. ...