Public playground. The code might be a work in progress.*
*) i.e., it SHOULD work, but is not guaranteed to. Watch out for the edge cases!
Initially developed as part of a working student's project in 2021/2022.
The - dockerized - cloud-init.py script leverages the IONOS Cloud API (6.0), which can be seen "as an alternative to the 'Data Center Designer' (DCD) browser-based tool" and "can be used to perform a multitude of management tasks, including adding servers, volumes, configuring networks, and so on."
To do so, the cloud-init.py script expects a datacenter to be defined with JSON and YAML config files ("Infrastructure as Code"). The JSON files define the servers (type of server, e.g., "ENTERPRISE" or "CUBE"; ram; cores; etc.) and the YAML files can be used to initialize the OS itself (adding users, keys and packages; disk setup; etc.): [...]