Kickstarting a CentOS server

kickstart.cfg

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# On the host that you want to run your kickstart server (in the folder containing kickstart.cfg): 
#  docker run --restart=always -p 9999:80 -v ${PWD}/kickstart.cfg:/var/www/html/kickstart.cfg nginx
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# Instructions:
#  - Boot into a fresh CentOS box. When you get presented with the ASCII menu, press tab then type: 
#    ks=http://<IP_OF_KICKSTART_BOX>:9999/kickstart.cfg . Then press enter.

## kickstart.cfg
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lang en_US
keyboard us
timezone America/New_York --isUtc
rootpw $1$RbhGBRTh$PpaMQpLQ3FzGYM.2tPQqC. --iscrypted #this sets the root password to changeme
#platform x86, AMD64, or Intel EM64T
reboot
text


bootloader --location=mbr --append="rhgb quiet crashkernel=auto"
zerombr
clearpart --all --initlabel
autopart
auth --passalgo=sha512 --useshadow
selinux --enforcing
firewall --enabled
firstboot --disable


%post --log=/var/log/post.log
exec < /dev/tty3 > /dev/tty3
chvt 3
echo "################################"
echo "# Running Post Configuration   #"
echo "################################"

echo "[install ssh keys]"
mkdir -m0700 /root/.ssh
cat <<EOF >/root/.ssh/authorized_keys
ssh-rsa PASTE_IN_YOUR_PUBLIC_KEY_HERE
EOF

chmod 0600 /root/.ssh/authorized_keys
restorecon -R /root/.ssh

sed -i 's/\#PermitRootLogin yes/PermitRootLogin yes/g' /etc/ssh/sshd_config
echo "[install epel release]"
yum install -y epel-release
yum clean all
echo "[install primary packages]"
yum install -y git nano cowsay tmux htop ansible yum-utils

# echo "exclude=kernel*" >> /etc/yum.conf
# update the system
echo "[yum update -y]"
#yum update -y
#Setting docker-repo
yum-config-manager --add-repo https://download.docker.com/linux/centos/docker-ce.repo
#Installing docker
yum clean all
echo "[install docker]"
yum install -y docker-ce docker-ce-cli nfs-utils --skip-broken
systemctl enable docker
%end
%packages
openssh-server
%end

### End of kickstart.cfg