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# RailianceHosts
**Tagline:** Git-driven automation for secure, self-reliant servers.
RailianceHosts is an open-source control repo that provisions and manages servers on Hetzner Cloud entirely from Git. It combines **Terraform** for lifecycle management, **cloud-init** for first-boot configuration, and **Ansible** for convergence. All secrets live in-repo encrypted with **SOPS** and are unlocked with your single **age** master key (which you keep in your password manager). The minimal server registry in `inventory/servers.yaml` is the source of truth.
## Quickstart
0. **Clone**: clone the repo
1. **Install**: terraform >= 1.7, ansible >= 2.16, age, sops.
2. **Generate master key (age)** and put the **private key** in your password manager. Save the **public key** to `keys/age.pub`.
3. **Create Hetzner Project** + API token and store it (encrypted) in `inventory/group_vars/secrets.sops.yaml` under `ops.hcloud_token`.
4. **Edit `inventory/servers.yaml`** to add your first host.
5. **Apply**:
```bash
make apply
```
See inline comments across the repo for details. Remember to **encrypt secrets** with SOPS before committing.
## 🚀 Getting Started
First, clone this repository to your workstation:
```bash
git clone https://<your-gitea-host>/coulomb/railliance-hosts.git
cd railiance-hosts
```
## 📦 Prerequisites
To use RailianceHosts, make sure you have the following tools installed on your workstation:
- **Git** → for version control
- **age** → for key management and encryption ([Install guide](docs/age-keys.md))
- **SOPS** → for managing encrypted secrets ([SOPS GitHub](https://github.com/getsops/sops))
- **Terraform** → for provisioning infrastructure ([Terraform Downloads](https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/downloads))
- **Ansible** → for server configuration ([Ansible Installation Guide](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/installation_guide/))
- **Make** → to run the included `Makefile` tasks
### Example installation (Ubuntu/Debian)
```bash
# System tools
sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y git make ansible
# Terraform
sudo apt install -y wget unzip
wget https://releases.hashicorp.com/terraform/1.9.5/terraform_1.9.5_linux_amd64.zip
unzip terraform_1.9.5_linux_amd64.zip
sudo mv terraform /usr/local/bin/
# age
sudo apt install age
# SOPS Get the latest release (example: v3.10.2 — check GitHub for updates)
wget https://github.com/getsops/sops/releases/download/v3.10.2/sops_3.10.2_amd64.deb
sudo apt install ./sops_3.10.2_amd64.deb
```
## 🔑 Secrets Management
This project uses [SOPS](https://github.com/getsops/sops) with [age](https://age-encryption.org) for secret encryption.
To set up your own key and configure SOPS, follow the guide here:
➡️ [Managing Age Keys](docs/age-keys.md)