Background: I have several RPis which I need to re-image. I use the stock Raspbian and they get their IPs via DHCP. This makes it difficult (in my specific environment) to know which IP they received, and then to configure them.
Today this configuration is automated via Ansible but the first connection is complicated (due to the lack of knowledge of the IP). I would like to move to SaltStack, where the connection is initiated by the client (the RPi in my case).
The question: the SaltStack software still needs to be installed and I would like to "drop" this installation script somewhere on the SD with the image. One thing I do not want to do is to modify the stock Raspbian (rebuild it), just have myinstallation.sh
(which would have the relevant commands and configuration) launched either as part of the first boot, or as part of any boot (I would remove it during the configuration).
Is such a functionality available? Or a similar approach?