quick start

README.md

+# Getting started
+
+
+## Packer
+1.Create a ed25519 host key with follwing name "ssh_host_ed25519_key" accordingly "ssh_host_ed25519_key.pub" and move it into prvisioning/secrets.
+
+```shell
+cd alxmonitoring/offline/packer/provisioning
+mkdir secrets
+cd secrets
+ssh-keygen -t ed25519
+```
+
+2.Create in also in folder ```alxmonitoring/offline/packer/provisioning``` a ```authorized_keys``` file and paste here the key you want use to connect via ssh.
+
+3.Now you are ready to build the diskimage. Change into ```alxmonitoring/offline/packer``` folder and run the following command.
+
+```shell
+./build.sh archlinux-monitoring.json
+```
+
+## Ansible
+
+4.Create the necessary TLS certificates with following script.
+
+```shell
+alxmonitoring/playbooks/files/openssl/script/generate.sh
+```
+
+5.Start the newly created diskimage with your hypervisor and obtain the assigned ip address. e.g.:
+
+```shell
+arp -i %virtual_network_name% -n
+```
+
+6.Change into ```alxmonitoring``` folder and change in ```inventory.yml```the variable 'ansible_host' to your vm's ip address.
+
+7.Before Ansible can configure and provision the vm, we need to set an sudo password for user anible. e.g:
+
+```shell
+ssh root@%ip% -i %your_key%
+passwd ansible
+```
+
+8.To configure and provision the newly created vm, run follwing ansible-playbook command.
+
+```shell
+ansible-playbook alxmonitoring.yml --extra-vars "ansible_sudo_pass=%sudopassword%"
+```