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Utilize contabo cntb and ubuntu multipass to set up production and dev environments

Automate contabo ubuntu instance configuration

get familiar with the cloud-init framework and config examples; prepare the customized cloud-config user-data.yaml

install and configure the latest cntb and rclone on the local machine

use genpasswd.sh to generate random passwords for root

    $ ./genpasswd.sh 16 passwd.root

modify the generated passwd.root to satisfy the requirement listed in the contabo createSecret API document:

In case of a password it must match a pattern with at least one upper and lower case character and either one number with two special characters !@#$^&*?_~ or at least three numbers with one special character !@#$^&*?_~. This is expressed in the following regular expression: ^((?=.*?[A-Z]{1,})(?=.*?[a-z]{1,}))(((?=(?:[^d]*d){1})(?=([^^&*?_~]*[!@#$^&*?_~]){2,}))|((?=(?:[^d]*d){3})(?=.*?[!@#$^&*?_~]+))).{8,}$

apg can also be used to generate the password:

    $ apg -a 1 -c cl_seed -n 1 -m 16 -x 16 -M sncl > ~/.secrets/passwd.root

use recresecs.sh to recreate secrets

    $ ./recresecs.sh

use reinstall.sh to reinstall/reconfigure the selected instances

    $ ./reinstall.sh

refer misc.sh for miscellaneous commands

disable vnc access on the contabo vps control panel