This is where I write about technology after it’s survived contact with my reality.
If it’s here, it’s been run, broken, fixed, and when I trust it again. Then I write about it.
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.
