On Thursday, September 12, 2013 7:49:19 PM UTC-5, Rich Siegel wrote: > > So I have done a full os install using baremetal on a seemingly harder > platform- windows. > > https://github.com/rismoney/puppet-baremetal-windows > > Now windows has a lot of nuances so it should be easier in theory to do > something similar starting from *nix. > > In essence I use a linux pxe server to boot a live image of an os with > puppet installed, and then all the config is deployed to get endpoint to > make it as expected. Based on a facter fact I know my host is in build > mode or not. > > Its awesome and a build takes 20 min with no razor, only pure puppet, as > all build config is backed in hiera. Most of the repo is dedicated to > reproducability of the entire solution whereas the execution a puppet code > is relatively small to make the os how I want it. > > > Is it not true, though, that the Puppet code by which you achieve the OS installation is totally different from what you would use to maintain any part of the installed system post installation, via a client running on it? Most built-in Puppet resource types are designed to manage resources belonging to the host OS, which during OS installation would be the PXE image.
I'm glad that what you have works well for you, but I'm not seeing where Puppet is bringing a big advantage to the OS install part. I'm imagining that it must involve primarily a bunch of Execs, and if that's true then I wonder whether it would be as easy or easier to use ordinary scripts installed locally on the PXE image to do the work instead. Or any of the various provisioning tools that are specifically designed for this sort of work. Can you help me out here? John -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
