Request for Alpine

[ptr727]

Request to add support for Alpine (not sure if it fits in the model, but I find your scripts really convenient).

[robertsinfosec]

@ptr727 it looks like they may only have support for AWS cloud images? See: https://www.alpinelinux.org/cloud/

If you want to play with it, see if you can get it going on your local hardware and then do a Pull Request?

[robertsinfosec]

FYI - I was just adding support for Rocky and AlmaLinux (Red Hat open source distros) and I re-looked at Alpine. It looks like they now have cloud-init images here:

https://www.alpinelinux.org/cloud/

It looks like the x86_x64, "cloud init", "NoCloud" images should work with ProxMox. Their versioning is a little messy, and they use a GPG key or SHA512 for verifying the image. The source files are here:

https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/

When I have some time, I'll loop back around to this, but thought I would pass it on in case you wanted to pursue it any further. Because yes - having a super-tiny Linux distro set up for ProxMox could be a useful thing. But since they don't have a "latest" or how Ubuntu does a Long Term Support (LTS) version every two years, you'd have to just manually pick arbitrary, specific versions that you want to support and hardcode those specific versions and filenames. Not sure of the best way to handle that.