Overview

This repository contains automation to establish a development environment for Solo5 & kvm on both amd64 and aarch64 architectures. It makes use of the https://packet.net baremetal servers and https://terraform.io orchestration tooling.

Setup Steps

1. Create an ssh key in top level project directory

   ssh-keygen -t rsa -f packnet.pem

2. Follow the steps in the packet.net quickstart guide substituting the above key.

3. Generate a new API key using packet.net console api-keys

4. Save the "token" value of the API key into a file named terraform.tfvars

      echo auth_token="<your token here>" > terraform.tfvars

5. Install terraform

   brew install terraform

6. Check terraform execution without creating any resources

    terraform plan

7. Create a server in packet.net and provision with the base tools needed for solo5 development.

    terraform apply

8. Ssh onto your new box and do wonderful KVM/Solo5 development in a repeatable environment. NB: if the installation does not work perfectly the setup scripts are in /root and can be tweaked/executed manually.

References

• http://blog.alexellis.io/get-started-with-docker-on-64-bit-arm/
• https://docs.docker.com/engine/getstarted/step_one/
• https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KVM/Installation