Automate setup / configurations ?

[Zacky Travis]

Is there a feature or workaround to automate armbian setup at first boot (set root password, set locales, set timezone, etc) ?

[Igor]

4 hours ago, Zacky Travis said:

Is there a feature or workaround to automate armbian setup at first boot (set root password, set locales, set timezone, etc) ?

You can find a working example within this script:

https://github.com/armbian/scripts/blob/devel2/.github/workflows/build-test-image-docker.yml

[Zacky Travis]

hi @Igor i thought armbian has this functionality builtin, like placing a configuration file in boot partition just like armbian_first_run.txt for configuring network interfaces, not yet ?

[robertoj]

The functionality of armbian_first_run.txt is not working at the moment... because "ifconfig" was removed, and there's only the "ip" command.

[Igor]

10 hours ago, Zacky Travis said:

not yet ?

 

This was never even planned nor IIRC anyone asked for in past 10 years. End users usually doesn't need this kind of automation and if this is for your business, welcome to become a partner (cover some of expenses you are generating) where chances for resolving moves into positive direction. 

Here we are collecting ideas that make sense for everyone:

https://forum.armbian.com/forum/38-feature-requests/
 

and that we can sponsor or finance from public charity:
https://liberapay.com/armbian

 

Every line of code is for project maintainers a liability and someone has to maintain it. The part of the code mentioned by @robertoj was introduced some 6-7 years ago and the one adding is long gone. We have many such cases all around and we all want that code doesn't have bugs and you want all this is free for you. This is hard to achieve. One way to patch this problem is by finding volunteers but very very few people are interested in doing this hard work ...

 

Its not that difficult to resolve this, but we really can't do anything anytime soon, certainly not within one year, as we have many other things, that are important for everyone, in plan to resolve. https://docs.armbian.com/Process_Contribute/

Develop, test and implement a feature you need. If it will be done quality enough with low maintainace expectations and / or unit tests, PR will be accepted, else not.