A deep-dive into network booting and automated OS provisioning — covering the full PXE/iPXE boot chain, dnsmasq and TFTP setup, Ubuntu autoinstall, Debian preseed, Kickstart for Rocky Linux, cloud-init post-provisioning, and a complete Docker Compose provisioning stack that takes a server from blank to configured without touching a USB drive.
Cloud-Init
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Bare Metal Provisioning: PXE Boot, iPXE, and Fully Automated OS Installs