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Version: v1.6

OS Requirements

Listing the OS requirements.

Operating System​

  • Ubuntu Server 24.04 with HWE kernel

Required Packages​

  • ipmitool - IPMI management
  • lm-sensors - Hardware monitoring
  • smartmontools - Disk health monitoring
  • bridge-utils - Network bridge utilities
  • podman - Container runtime
  • catatonit - Container init
  • python3-podman - Python Podman bindings
  • python3-pip - Python package manager
  • libvirt-clients - Virtualization tools
  • ovmf - UEFI firmware for VMs
  • chrony - NTP time synchronization

Storage Configuration​

Disk Layout​

  • Two disks in RAID1 (mdraid) configuration
  • GPT partition table on both disks
  • EFI partitions on both disks (FAT32, ~256MB)
  • Root filesystem on RAID1 array (ext4)
  • Swap disabled
  • UEFI boot from both disks

Mount Points​

  • / - RAID1 root partition
  • /boot/efi - Primary EFI partition
  • /boot/efi2 - Secondary EFI partition

Network Configuration​

  • Netplan v2 configuration
  • systemd-networkd with --any wait-online behavior

Physical Interfaces​

  • VLAN trunk interface named to physical0

VLAN Interfaces​

  • frontend0 - VLAN 101 on physical0 (default gateway)
  • provisioning0 - VLAN 102 on physical0

Kernel Parameters​

  • amd_iommu=on - AMD IOMMU enabled
  • iommu=pt - IOMMU passthrough mode
  • Nouveau driver blacklisted

Services​

SSH​

  • OpenSSH server installed
  • Key-based authentication configured
  • Root SSH access enabled

NTP (Chrony)​

  • Custom NTP pool configuration
  • pool.ntp.org as primary source

System Configuration​

  • Root user enabled
  • GRUB recordfail timeout: 3 seconds
  • Docker directory pre-created (/var/lib/docker)
  • open-iscsi removed