Packer on SETE

Linux Mint Unattended Installation

Mon, 22 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Originally published on LinkedIn on 2025-12-22.

An Article about Rubenshof - Linux Mint Unattended Installer

Every year we set up some devices for our students at school. This year we had the situation of delayed deliveries, because a donation of notebooks took longer than expected. So we have to get faster with setting the devices up. I took this challenge and created a unattended Workstation setup for our school.

Virtualized School IT Lab

Sun, 19 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Originally published on LinkedIn on 2025-01-19.

This Lab environment was created for a showcase at a local school. The school, a small community-driven institution based on Montessori principles, serves approximately 70 children and teachers. Open Source and Free and Open-Source Software (FOSS) are valued by some of the teaching staff, and they requested assistance with certain aspects of the school’s infrastructure. Considering this preference, a cloud solution was deemed unsuitable.

Use the power of automation

Fri, 01 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Originally published on LinkedIn on 2020-05-01.

I really like to automate things. So I also automate the creation and provision of base images for a datacenter environment.

There are some tools which solve this. In my case I prefer packer.io.

Why? Because it is opensource, supports a lot of different technologies, runs on different platforms and so on and so on. And it is simple and lightweight.

So with packer you can, build and provision images in cloud environments but also local with kvm, virtualbox or even hyper-v.