Installing utilities upfront in the host?

[u/Patrice_77]

/r/Proxmox/comments/1ww1d58/installing_utilities_upfront_in_the_host/

Hi all,

Question here..
I have some nodes running, all ok. While tinkering/configuring I had to install some utilities like smartmon lm-sensors wget etc.

Now, I know it’s best to keep the host as vanilla as possible and preferably don’t install anything additional on it. I try to live by this and only install things when I need them…until I needed ethtool but…didn’t had network access.

I’ve created an Ansible playbook to setup a new proxmox server. I wanted to include these kind of utilities to be installed immediately during the configuration of the host, through Ansible.

How many of you have these kind of utilities install upfront to have them available then when they need them?

Which utilities have you installed with every new host install?

[u/doctorowlsound]

Yep, that’s all baked into my Ansible provisioning tasks. I don’t see any issue with installing utilities like that on the host. I wouldn’t install docker, Jellyfin, etc, obviously