Raspberry Pi quick installer using cloud-init

[Vince Skahan]

Recent RaspiOS support cloud-init for automating installations, so I took a pass at converting my bash scripts to this newer method.  Nice thing is you basically just need to drop a couple files into the downloaded .img, one to get it running on your network, the other to do the automated installation.

I cooked up a [github repo] that installs and configures the following:

• WeeWX using the pip installation
• nginx as the webserver
• Belchertown as an added skin
• rsyslog for traditional logging
• logrotate to rotate logs
• ntpsec for time sync because systemd's variant is awful

See the repo for procedures and very commented files you'll need.  Should be obvious re: how you can salt to taste for your needs.

Works pretty nicely for me.  Gotta love burn the SD, boot the pi, and walk away. Cool stuff.