PaulBSD migration from Scaleway to Proxmox

As announced by Scaleway on April 16th, ARM instances will EOL on end 2020. PaulBSD infrastructure is based on one ARM64-8GB instance since 1 year with focus to migrate all in house applications.

So it was decided to migrate to Proxmox solution at home.

For reaching this goal, a new Intel NUC7i5BNH has been checked out on April.

Some of it specs below :

• Intel Core i5-7260U @ 2.2GHz CPU
• 8GB DDR4 RAM
• 500GB NVME storage

Proxmox 6.2 was installed using LVM-thin volumes, and instances using LXC technology.

To have a ready instance with many services installed and configured, an heavy work on some SaltStack-based states was done.

In fact, a new instance can be ready in few minutes:

• 5 seconds to provision
• 5 minutes to install and configured all applications and services

This week, PaulBSD infrastructure SaltStack states have been published and released under BSD Licence on https://git.paulbsd.com/paulbsd/paulbsd-salt

Many data need to migrate like:

• Nextcloud data
• Mails
• SQL and time-series databases

For network, Free FTTH is working on site to provide internet connectivity with one IPv4 public address and a full IPv6 stack to have direct transfers between all machines on many sites.

Migration will occur on summer 2020

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