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VPS providers with post-install script support
codedivine
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in General
One great feature offered by most of the bigger names is the ability to specify the post-OS-install tasks to run on the VPS by giving some kind of script or tool. Eg: Specifying which users and groups to create, SSH keys to use, packages to update and install, setting up firewalls etc. Are there any providers besides the big names (eg: DO, Hetzner cloud, Linode) etc. that allow providing a post-install scripts?
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LunaNode (via lobster/OpenStack) can preload ssh keys and run custom cloud-init scripts, as can most other cloud providers.
I find ansible is sufficient to get new VMs configured; either use cloud-init to do an ansible-pull, or use an integration module with your cloud provider to do the provisioning and configuration all from within ansible.