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Mirror Ubuntu Pro packages to be used on VMs
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Ubuntu Pro is a service offered by Canonical for expanded CVE patching, ten-years security maintenance and optional support. Anyone can use Ubuntu Pro for free for personal use on up to 5 machines. The site (https://ubuntu.com/pricing/pro) also states:
Server with unlimited VMs*
The * is interesting here. Its says:
Any of: KVM | Qemu | Boch, VMWare ESXi, LXD | LXC, Xen, Hyper-V (WSL, Multipass), VirtualBox, z/VM, Docker. All Nodes in the cluster have to be subscribed to the service in order to benefit from the unlimited VM support
I use Proxmox and also i could not find any information on how the VMs would actually find the host's license. So i decided to mirror the packages myself and use it in my VMs.
I use nginx to proxy the requests and authenticate with Ubuntu Pro token.
I only provide the basic nginx config part and the script to setup the sources. You have to take care of any security to prevent an open proxy here. Please do not ...