• servers

Provisioning a new VPS

Assuming I'm using Vultr right now.

1. Pick specs
   • Sydney location, $5 VPS, Debian 9 should be good

   • Enable IPv6 and Auto Backups

   • Tick all SSH keys

   • Generic firewall group

   • Pick a good hostname and a leave the label as matching it
2. Deploy Now

3. Once the installation gets far enough it'll have an IP address allocated. Grab it and go add the DNS entry for it at https://www.gandi.net/en

4. Go to the server's settings and set your Reverse DNS, foo.meidokon.net

5. Configure backups: Weekly, Friday, 21:00 UTC

You should be pretty much sorted now.

Configuring the new VPS

1. Get onto the box via the new IP or DNS

2. Install minimal set of packages

   apt-get update
   apt-get install -y aptitude
   aptitude install -y git make
   aptitude install -y puppet-module-puppetlabs-stdlib

3. Clone the puppet code

   cd /etc/puppet/
   rmdir code
   git clone https://github.com/barneydesmond/personal-puppet.git code

4. Run puppet to conform the system:

   make -C /etc/puppet/code full

Your system should now be good.