On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 12:00:18PM -0400, John Burwell wrote: > David, > > Why not expose an API that would allow Cobbler, Foreman, Razor, etc > to call into CloudStack at the appropriate times? The current REST > API may even be sufficient. Speaking with experience using both > Cobbler and Foreman, they work better when they are coordinating the > provisioning activities rather than being embedded into another > system. It also avoid any licensing issues, and allows customers > to chose the tools that most appropriately fits their environment. >
Yup - Foreman comes to mind since it plays well with puppet too during post-install. As a seperate appliance per pod would be best, an image that configures - cobbler/foreman/$your_fav_system as per your physical infrastructure with the admin's REST api of CloudStack. -- Prasanna.,
