Well, I got it done...

I would say the image perfectly describes how I tend to dive into greenfield tasks. If I am asked to deploy something new (stuff I love doing), my first question is usually, where is the installer? Yes, I will glean the documentation, of course, but I need real cont...

So yeah, templates are probably the least exciting thing to talk about, but I consider them foundational. Properly prepared templates mean less pain and simpler, more predictable deployments.

I keep cloud-init templates for just about every Linux distro an enterprise would care about. It gives me total freedom in how I deploy and makes it easy to compare behaviors across platforms.

This document provides a clean, repeatable, production grade procedure for building an Ubuntu 24.04 (Noble) template that works reliably with Proxmox cloud init.