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Agama Unattended installation via profile.json of Tumbleweed's KVM Guests

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https://dbaxps.blogspot.com; By Boris Derzhavets
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Tumbleweed updates continuously, manual interactive installations frequently break due to rapid package, installer (Agama), or kernel shifts. Unattended automation ensures predictable, reproducible, and verifiable states for disaster recovery and testing. Mitigating Rolling-Release Fluctuation: Tumbleweed moves extremely fast. An unattended deployment via structured templates (profile.json) ensures that the initial bootstrap bypasses manual package selection errors and unpredictable installer UI changes.

Disaster Recovery Validation Loop: For continuous integration or automated DR testing, environments must be torn down and rebuilt from scratch. Unattended installation scripts (using virt-install) allow you to programmatically verify that guest configurations, volume management definitions, and baseline application profiles work under the latest upstream packages without human intervention.

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