preseeder is a simple service serving Debian Preseed files for use when setting up your home lab, cloud infrastructure, personal machine or local VM.

It features a simple templating mechanism, so you can serve customized preseeds via a single HTTP endpoint.

Since preseeder is written in Go, you can do a simple go get github.com/riesinger/preseeder/cmd/preseeder to install it locally. Alternatively, you're able to git clone this repository and run go build ./cmd/preseeder.

Furthermore, a Dockerfile is provided, so you could also build preseeder via Docker.

After starting preseeder, it will listen to HTTP requests on Port 3000.

You can now request preseeds via a call to 127.0.0.1:3000/preseed/<hostname>.

The hostname of the machine is the primary means of differentiating between preseed templates. By default, a preseed template called _default_ will be served from ./preseeds. If a template with the same name as hostname is present, it will be served instead of the default preseed.

Since the templates use the power of Go Templates, you can already configure a lot of different things using the hostname for differentiation.

The Docker container reads preseed templates from the /data directory, so you could use the container something like this:

docker run --name preseeder -v $(pwd)/preseeds:/data -p 3000:3000 <you docker tag>