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-# template-config
+# EL7 VM Templatization for Proxmox
 
+## Description
+
+These are some handy tools to turn a VM into a template, so that creating a new VM is as simple as (full) clone and boot. There are several assumptions made that may not necessarily match with anyone else's environment:
+  - CentOS 7 minimal install (will probably work on any flavor of EL7)
+  - DHCP server available
+  - rootfs (/) is on the last partition of the primary disk, and is a primary partition
+  - a `centos` user exists on the VM (this is not a hard requirement, nothing bad will happen if it's not true)
+  
+Right now, the main things it will do is on the first time a new VM boots it will:
+  - generate a new hostname (configurable, defaults to using UUIDs)
+  - grow the rootfs
+  
+## Setup
+
+  1. Create a new VM (with a very small disk, like <=8GB) and install CentOS 7 minimal
+  1. Customize new install with whatever software/users/ssh keys you will want on *every* VM by default
+  1. Copy each of the four files to the location specified in the comment at the top:
+      - `cp ./vm-{seal,firstrun}.sh /usr/local/sbin/`
+      - `cp ./vm-firstrun.example-config /etc/sysconfig/vm-firstrun`
+      - `cp ./vm-firstrun.service /etc/systemd/system/vm-firstrun.service`
+  1. Make the two .sh scripts executable: `chmod +x /usr/local/sbin/vm-{seal,firstrun}.sh`
+  1. Let systemd see the new unit file: `systemctl daemon-reload`
+  1. Once all your customizations are done and you're ready to turn it into a template, run: `/usr/local/sbin/vm-seal.sh`
+  1. The VM should shutdown, then in Proxmox you can just right-click and convert to template
+  
+## Usage
+
+After doing the setup, to create a new VM:
+  1. do a full clone of the template
+  1. grow the size of the disk if needed
+  1. start the VM
+  
+If you ever need to make changes to your template:
+  1. follow the above steps to create a new VM from the template
+  1. make your changes on the new VM that will become the new template
+  1. when done making changes, run `/usr/local/sbin/vm-seal.sh`
+  1. after the new VM stops, convert it to a template and delete the old template
+  
+Note that because it touches `/.autorelabel`, the first boot can take a few minutes while the SELinux contexts are re-applied or whatever, if SELinux is disabled in your environment this may not matter.
+
+## How it works
+
+It's very simple, `vm-seal.sh` basically de-configures the parts of the system that should be unique, then removes any log files or anything that shouldn't really be on a newly-installed system. Then it enables `vm-firstrun.service` in systemd and does a shutdown. At the next boot, systemd starts the `vm-firstrun.service` which just runs `vm-firstrun.sh`, which generates a new hostname and grows the rootfs. Then it disables the `vm-firstrun.service` so that it won't run again next time the VM is rebooted. 
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diff --git a/vm-firstrun.example-config b/vm-firstrun.example-config
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+# /etc/sysconfig/vm-firstrun
+# CFG_HOSTNAME_SCRIPT="uuidgen"
+# CFG_HOSTNAME_PREFIX=""
+# CFG_HOSTNAME_POSTFIX=""
+# CFG_DOMAIN="localdomain"
+# CFG_ROOTFS_DISK="/dev/sda"
+# CFG_ROOTFS_PARTITION="3"
+# CFG_ROOTFS_TYPE="xfs"
+# CFG_SERVICE_NAME="vm-firstrun"
+
diff --git a/vm-firstrun.service b/vm-firstrun.service
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+# /etc/systemd/system/vm-firstrun.service
+[Unit]
+Description=Initialize this template-created VM
+
+[Service]
+Type=oneshot
+ExecStart=/usr/local/sbin/vm-firstrun.sh
+
+[Install]
+WantedBy=multi-user.target
+
diff --git a/vm-firstrun.sh b/vm-firstrun.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+
+# /usr/local/sbin/vm-firstrun.sh
+
+# This script depends on having these packages installed:
+#   - cloud-utils-growpart
+#   - parted
+
+# This should be a simple bash file that sets the CFG_* variables
+[ -f /etc/sysconfig/vm-firstrun ] && . /etc/sysconfig/vm-firstrun
+
+## Set default values for anything that wasn't already set
+# This will be run at firstboot to generate the hostname
+CFG_HOSTNAME_SCRIPT="${CFG_HOSTNAME_SCRIPT:=uuidgen}"
+# These can be set in config, there's just no reason for a default besides (blank)
+# CFG_HOSTNAME_PREFIX="${CFG_HOSTNAME_PREFIX:=}"
+# CFG_HOSTNAME_POSTFIX="${CFG_HOSTNAME_POSTFIX:=}"
+CFG_DOMAIN="${CFG_DOMAIN:=localdomain}"
+CFG_ROOTFS_DISK="${CFG_ROOTFS_DISK:=/dev/sda}"
+CFG_ROOTFS_PARTITION="${CFG_ROOTFS_PARTITION:=3}"
+CFG_ROOTFS_TYPE="${CFG_ROOTFS_TYPE:=xfs}"
+CFG_SERVICE_NAME="${CFG_SERVICE_NAME:=vm-firstrun}"
+
+## Helper Functions
+function log() {
+    echo "$@" | logger --stderr -t vm-firstrun
+}
+
+
+## Do the things
+old_hostname="$(hostname -f)"
+new_hostname="${CFG_HOSTNAME_PREFIX}$(${CFG_HOSTNAME_SCRIPT})${CFG_HOSTNAME_POSTFIX}"
+if ! [ -z "${CFG_DOMAIN}" ]; then
+    new_hostname="${new_hostname}.${CFG_DOMAIN}"
+fi
+
+log "Setting hostname from '${old_hostname}' to '${new_hostname}'"
+hostnamectl set-hostname "${new_hostname}"
+
+if [ -b "${CFG_ROOTFS_DISK}" ]; then
+    if [ -b "${CFG_ROOTFS_DISK}${CFG_ROOTFS_PARTITION}" ]; then
+        # expand the partition
+        log "Expanding rootfs partition"
+        growpart "${CFG_ROOTFS_DISK}" "${CFG_ROOTFS_PARTITION}"
+        # reload partition table
+        log "Reloading partition table"
+        partprobe "${CFG_ROOTFS_DISK}"
+
+        # grow the rootfs
+        case "${CFG_ROOTFS_TYPE}" in
+            xfs)
+                log "Growing rootfs of type: ${CFG_ROOTFS_TYPE}"
+                xfs_growfs /
+                ;;
+            ext*)
+                log "Growing ${CFG_ROOTFS_TYPE} rootfs on device: ${CFG_ROOTFS_DISK}${CFG_ROOTFS_PARTITION}"
+                resize2fs "${CFG_ROOTFS_DISK}${CFG_ROOTFS_PARTITION}"
+                ;;
+            *)
+                log "Unsupported rootfs type: ${CFG_ROOTFS_TYPE}"
+                log "Doing nothing, please grow the fs manually"
+                ;;
+        esac
+    else
+        log "rootfs partition not found, unable to expand: ${CFG_ROOTFS_DISK}${CFG_ROOTFS_PARTITION}"
+    fi
+else
+    log "rootfs disk not found, unable to expand: ${CFG_ROOTFS_DISK}"
+fi
+
+log "initial config done, disabling myself"
+systemctl disable "${CFG_SERVICE_NAME}"
+
diff --git a/vm-seal.sh b/vm-seal.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+
+# /usr/local/sbin/vm-seal.sh
+
+unset HISTFILE
+
+yum update -y
+yum clean all -y
+
+: > /etc/machine-id
+hostnamectl set-hostname localhost.localdomain
+systemctl enable vm-firstrun
+
+rm -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_*
+
+rm -rf /root/.ssh/
+rm -f /root/anaconda-ks.cfg
+rm -f /root/.bash_history
+
+rm -f /home/centos/.bash_history
+rm -f /home/centos/.ssh/known_hosts
+
+rm -f /var/log/boot.log
+rm -f /var/log/cron
+rm -f /var/log/dmesg
+rm -f /var/log/grubby
+rm -f /var/log/lastlog
+rm -f /var/log/maillog
+rm -f /var/log/messages
+rm -f /var/log/secure
+rm -f /var/log/spooler
+rm -f /var/log/tallylog
+rm -f /var/log/wpa_supplicant.log
+rm -f /var/log/wtmp
+rm -f /var/log/yum.log
+rm -f /var/log/audit/audit.log
+rm -f /var/log/tuned/tuned.log
+
+updatedb
+
+touch /.autorelabel
+
+sys-unconfig
+