MIAOU

provisioning tool for building opinionated architecture following these principles:

• free software: AGPLv3
• multi-target: DEV, BETA (alias staging), PROD
• container-based: LXD/LXC on Debian 12 (bookworm)
• secured: NFT
• monitored: MONIT

ORIGIN

The project name miaou comes up from both a French and Reunion's Creole pun

• miaou is a shortcut for mi aim aou, which means 'I love you'
• miaou means 'meow' in french, related to the acronym C.H.A.T.O.N.S

ARCHITECTURE

to draw... (mermaid?)

• DEV (sync from PROD via SAVE, sync from BETA, push new to BETA)
• BETA (sync from PROD via SAVE, push new to PROD)
• PROD (backup to SAVE, full backup, recipe data backup)
• SAVE (dedicated server, home local)

ACTIVE COMPONENTS

• grub
  • cgroup1
• linux
• rust
  • tera
• go
• perl
• python
  • ovh
• bash
  • miaou-bash

Debian12 fresh install

• log as normal user with sudo group

• sudo apt install -y git
• git clone https://git.artcode.re/miaou/miaou-server.git

• EITHER:

  • ./miaou/lib/install.sh dev

  • OR:

  • EMAIL=<your email> ./miaou/lib/install.sh dev

• then, FINALLY

• miaou

Nested container test drive

• CONTAINER=nested
• lxc-miaou-create $CONTAINER -o sameuser,nesting
• lxc sameuser $CONTAINER
  • /opt/miaou-server/lib/install.sh dev

Hardening server

• /opt/miaou-server/lib/harden.sh

Development mode

• requirement Codium IDE

• sudo apt install y shellcheck shfmt