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Add some details and links throughout, still work in progress.
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You will need to have created a Packet account and a project to
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You will need to have created a Packet account and a project to
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put this new machine into. You will also need to create an API key
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put this new machine into. You will also need to create an API key
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with appropriate permissions to
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with appropriate read/write permissions to allow the image to boot.
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Linuxkit on Packet boots via iPXE. This requires that you have
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Linuxkit on Packet boots via iPXE. This requires that you have
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an HTTP server on which you can store your images. At the moment
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an HTTP server on which you can store your images. At the moment
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there is no equivalent to "linuxkit push" to upload these images,
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there is no equivalent to "linuxkit push" to upload these images,
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so you will have to host them yourself.
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so you will have to host them yourself. The images can be served
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from any HTTP server, though in the interest of performance you'll
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want to locate those images near the data center that you're booting in.
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Linuxkit is known to work on the Type 0 server at Packet.
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## Boot
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## Boot
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`linuxkit run packet -api-key PACKET_API_KEY -base-url http://path-to-my-pxe-boot-server ...`
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`linuxkit run packet -api-key PACKET_API_KEY -base-url http://path-to-my-pxe-boot-server ...`
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Servers take several minutes to provision.
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Servers take several minutes to provision. During this time their
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state can be seen from the Packet console.
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## Console
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## Console
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Prepare an SSH public key?
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If your LinuxKit system does not include an ssh or remote console
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application, you can still connect to it via the Packet SOS ("Serial over SSH")
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console. See https://help.packet.net/technical/networking/sos-rescue-mode
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for details on that mode.
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## Disks
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## Disks
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Elastic storage, pointer to.
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At this moment the Linuxkit server boots from RAM, with no persistent
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storage.
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## Networking
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## Networking
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