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 welcome
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 agile-working
+traceability-concept
 documentation-guidelines
 versioning
 branching-code-review-process
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+requirements-gathering-interview
 service-catalogue
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+vms-and-lxcs
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vms-and-lxcs.md

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+# Basic Know-How about VMs and LXC containers
+
+## Main assumption and general conditions
+
+### Microsft Azure compatible Linux Distributions
+
+We love Debian, but it's not well supported by Microsoft Azure. Thus we are going mainstream and use Ubuntu.
+
+### IaC vs. CaC
+
+Infratsructure as Code (IaC) is how we deploy virtual bare-metal. We are using Terraform for that.
+
+Configuration as Code (CaC) is how we configure the VMs and LXC containers and install software. We are using Ansible for that.
+
+We are defining the boundary between IaC and CaC as follows:
+
+- IaC is responsible for the VMs and LXC containers, the network, and the storage.
+- IaC ends as soon as the VMs and LXC containers are up and running.
+- SSH keys are installed by IaC.
+- CaC is responsible for the software installed on the VMs and LXC containers.
+- CaC uses the SSH keys installed by IaC to connect to the VMs and LXC containers.
+
+### Cloud-init VM template
+
+Our hypervisor is Proxmox, which is based on Debian. We are using the [Proxmox cloud-init](https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Cloud-Init_Support) template for Ubuntu.
+
+We are using a small server images to keep the attack surface small. The cloud-init template is a server Ubuntu image with cloud-init installed. Get the URL from the Ubuntu website and download it to the Proxmox servers local storage for ISO images. Ubuntu website link: [https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/releases/](https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/releases/). We are going for the file ending in `*server-cloudimg-amd64.img`.
+
+### LXC container template
+
+We are also using Ubuntu for the LXC containers. We are using the latest Ubuntu standard LXC template you can download via the Proxmox web interface for that.
+
+### SSH keys
+
+## Create a VM with Terraform
+
+## Create an LXC container with Terraform