Add quickstart to Hetzner Cloud docs, reorder sections - #699
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| Flatcar Container Linux is not installable as one of the default operating system options, but you can deploy it by installing it through the rescue OS. | ||
| Flatcar Container Linux is not installable as one of the default operating system options, but you can deploy it by installing it through the rescue OS relatively easily. | ||
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| These instructions require Flatcar with version `3941.1.0` or newer. |
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Drive-by: Also removed the minimum version requirement, as 3941 was a non-LTS release from 2024... I doubt anyone will be creating a new server with such an old Flatcar image. Can revert if we want.
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| These instructions require Flatcar with version `3941.1.0` or newer. | ||
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Git hates re-ordering things... please see https://github.com/nikodunk/flatcar-website/blob/patch-1/content/docs/latest/deploy/cloud/hetzner.md for a more sane view.
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@apricote - @tormath1 noted I should ping you. Thank you for the Docker image of hcloud-image-upload, which simplifies things a lot. I'd like to propose featuring it more prominently at the top as a Quickstart, bc I find it transforms Flatcar-On-Hetzner into a one-liner and use it personally for hobby projects now and I think it makes things a lot less intimidating. |
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As noted on Discord I wasn't as radical as @tormath1 proposed to remove the Packer and Hcloud Image Upload section (XKCD link) and just link to their docs, but instead re-ordered existing content into 4 sections. Before:
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Signed-off-by: nikodunk <n.dunkel@gmail.com>
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I merged this. It can always be revisited later if it does not work as expected. Thanks again for taking the time to contribute. |
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Add quickstart to Hetzner Cloud docs, reorder sections
As discussed on Discord, I just found out that you can now install Flatcar on Hetzner with a one-liner if you have Docker installed, as hcloud-image-upload now comes as a Docker image.
This PR does 3 things:
From Discord:
How to use
Read through https://github.com/nikodunk/flatcar-website/blob/patch-1/content/docs/latest/deploy/cloud/hetzner.md (git hates reordering)
Testing done
I use this flow personally for hobby projects as documented here. Works well if you use the SSH key that Hetzner provides as opposed to Ignition, or you can add custom Ignition files later with the --user-data flag on hcloud's cli.
changelog/directory (user-facing change, bug fix, security fix, update)/bootand/usrsize, packages, list files for any missing binaries, kernel modules, config files, kernel modules, etc.