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virtual format for maximum portability. (piefed.social)
submitted 1 month ago by HubertManne@piefed.social to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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So I have been contemplating virtualizing my day to day and running it on my host with the thought I could upload it to a cloud for various reasons. Thing is I would like to use a virtual machine but I want something that could be moved anywhere without any modification. So I sorta feel I would have to go with a container but again I sorta prefer a standar vm. Im just looking for peoples thoughts.

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[–] moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You should look into "Configuration as code", where you use automation via various methods and store the code in a git repo. The other commenter in the thread is a good example of this methodology, using Terraform and Ansible, but there are many ways to do this.