[How-To] Configure the Day 1 Checklist for Raspberry Pi

Purpose

The document below will explain what goes into prepping a raspberry pi for production use. This includes but should not be limited to: updates/upgrades, timezone and locale, static ip, default credentials, hardening ssh, static hostnames, useful services and tools, configuring the firewall and storage/backups.

Prerequisites

List of prerequisites:

• Raspberry Pi 
• Access to device over ssh or console
• Sudo user
• Internet connection

Instructions for Day 1 setup of Raspberry Pi

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