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Initialize a device on boot with user defined configuration
https://github.com/hypriot/device-init

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Initialize a device on boot with user defined configuration

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# device-init
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The `device-init` runs while booting your device and can customize some settings of the device.

To replace the `/boot/occidentalis.txt` (as we want this feature for more boards than the RPi) and to enhance the possibilities to customize the SD card image at first boot, we want to introduce this tool `device-init` that read customizations from the FAT partition `/boot/device-init.yaml` so it is easier to write it onto the SD card image.

* ☑ Set hostname
* ☑ Set WiFi SSID/PSK
* ☐ Set timezone
* ☐ Set locale
* ☐ Set static IP (see hypriot/device-init#6)
* ☑ Pull some docker images
* ☐ Install a list of DEB packages
* ☑ Run a custom script from /boot
* ...

## The /boot/device-init.yaml

The `device-init` tool reads the file `/boot/device-init.yaml` to initialize several settings while booting your device.

### Hostname

```yaml
hostname: "black-pearl"
```

### Wifi Settings

```yaml
wifi:
interfaces:
wlan0:
ssid: "MyNetwork"
password: "secret_password"
```

### Docker Preload Images Settings
device-init can preload local image files into the Docker engine on boot.
Those images have to be exported via 'docker save image-name > image-name.tar'.
It is recommended to compress the output of 'docker save' with 'gzip image-name.tar' which results in a image-name.tar.gz file.

```yaml
docker:
images:
- "/path/to/image-name.tar.gz"
- "/path/to/another-image-name.tar"
```

### Run a Command
device-init can execute a list of commands on boot. e.g.:
```yaml
runcmd:
- "apt-get install package-name"
- "curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/.../myscript.sh | sh"
```
Make sure that the command lines do not produce YAML syntax errors. You can check [here](http://www.yamllint.com/)

### Hypriot Cluster-Lab
device-init can start the Hypriot Cluster-Lab on start up by setting the 'run_on_boot' option to 'true'.

```
clusterlab:
service:
run_on_boot: "false"
```

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