Node Provisioning
First boot
What needs to happen when a node first boots up?
It needs to find the network.
The TPM must be provisioned.
Storage should be provisioned.
Ansible should be run to set up any software.
Questions
What should boot look like after the first PXE boot? - PXE boot and run ansible each time? - Install an image to the eMMC (or SD card), booting from that in
the future and using the NVMe drive for storage?
Install an image to the NVMe drive and boot off that in the future?
What can we do with the TPM? - It needs to be registered on first boot.
What should be done in the initramfs vs cloud-init?
What sort of clustering software should we use? - Some sort of container management? - Kubernetes?