Guy Tel-Zur wrote: > I would appreciate seeing an example how to duplicate an already > installed node (a "Golden Client") > and then PXE booting other nodes with the Golden Client image using > Cobbler. > (I am familiar with "system-config-netboot", this tool relies on using > "rsync" first) > > Regards, > > Guy > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > cobbler mailing list > [email protected] > https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler >
One warning: "Golden" is a bit of a euphemism for "I don't know how I got this system this way". Using kickstart and a config management system (puppet, cfengine, bcfg2, etc) is a much more sustainable way to go, as then you have codified exactly what goes into the image. These images also pose a problem for updates and moving between distributions. Worst still, you really don't know what's on the image and accounting for differences in hardware types can be a big problem. This is why cobbler prominently supports kickstart and any image cloning support will be auxilliary to the main usage models. So, technical answer: While we are working on a live CD based approach that uses partimage to do image based cloning, this is not yet complete. This is more interesting for non-Linux OS's than it is to support "golden" type images. Tools like virt-clone and virt-image exist to handling cloning in the virtual space. As work progresses on virt-convert, we'll have similar support in koan for tracking a library of virt-images that can be cloned and redeployed from NFS at will. --Michael _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
