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we use a lightweight ubuntu image and have terraform clone it and spin up the vm, then ansible deals with daily updates, etc. A bit of extra tooling but its all automated.
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Similar here. Using cloud images (Ubuntu or OpenSuse) coupled with cloud-init files for the initial image deployment. Hoping to move to Terraform soon, but that is more of a culture shift for us than a technology hurdle.
As a side note, I'm keeping my eye on Elemental and Seeder. I can see the Suse Rancher team using these tools to make Rancher deployments more like deploying a virtual appliance (similar to how Harvester is deployed), rather than the way it exists today where you need an existing Kubernetes instance as a prerequisite to deploying Rancher, which is used for deploying Kubernetes instances (bit of a chicken and egg predicament).
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Thanks guys, I've been using boot2docker because it's been easy but all that's deprecated, sounds like I have some time to sink into building node templates.