Armbian config - The new generation

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Mission: provide easy way to configure OS and install services

 

armbian-config provides configuration and installation routines for customizing and automating tasks within Armbian Linux environment. These utilities help streamline setup processes for various use cases.
 

 

 

Key Advantages

• Lightweight: Minimal dependencies for optimal performance.
• Flexible: Supports JSON, TUI, CLI, and API interfaces.
• Modern: A fresh approach to configuration.
• Low entropy: Byte clean uninstall for most targets.

Features

• System Configuration:
  • Kernel management, headers, hardware tweaks.
  • NFS and ZFS storage management.
  • SSH user access tweaks.
  • System updates, rolling / stable, containers update.
• Network Management:
  • Fixed / dynamic IP configuration.
  • Connecting to wireless network.
  • Access point management.
• Localization Settings:
  • Configure time zone.
  • Set language and locales.
  • Change hostname.
• Software Management:
  • Software installation and removal.
  • Native and containerized environment.
  • Standardised, updatable, maintained.

 

Compatibility

This tool is tailored to works best with Armbian Linux but it has also been automatically tested on:

• Debian Bookworm
• Ubuntu Jammy
• Ubuntu Noble

 

In theory it should work on all systemd APT based Linux distributions: Linux Mint, Elementary OS, Kali Linux, MX Linux, Parrot OS, Proxmox, Raspberry Pi OS, ...

Getting Started

Armbian config is preinstalled on Armbian. Open or login into your terminal and run:

 

armbian-config

 

Spoiler

This tool has clean and verified code with focus in security and ability for long term maintenance. It allows quick and easy user level functional expansion. For this reason we setup several automated tools that checks the code from various perspective at the development phase. Most of features are automatically testes with on Debian and Ubuntu based Armbian user-space. Even this tool was designed for Armbian and will be supported on Armbian OS only, and works best with it, you can (try to) use it on any APT based Linux operating system.

 

End users:

Request new software title

 

Documentation:
Armbian config | Optimised software
 

Developers:

Adding a new feature or software install title

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• containerized with official images
• tested with networkd and Network Manager
• tested on arm64