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Agama Unattended installation openSUSE Tumbleweed via profile.json on remote host (bare metal )

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https://dbaxps.blogspot.com/; By Boris Derzhavets
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Unattended openSUSE Tumbleweed deployments on bare metal are critical because they eliminate manual intervention, ensure configuration consistency, and drastically reduce provisioning time across physical infrastructure. While Tumbleweed is a rolling-release distribution - traditionally favored by developers and power users on personal machines - deploying it at scale on bare metal using unattended methods providing by Agama Installer serves several vital engineering and operational purposes:

• Elimination of Human Error: Manual OS installations introduce variances in disk partitioning, package selection, and initial network setups. Unattended installations use a version-controlled configuration file (like profile.json) to guarantee that server is an exact clone of the intended specification.
• Declarative Infrastructure: Treating your bare-metal OS installation as code aligns your physical infrastructure with modern DevOps practices, making state drift easier to prevent and audit.

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