I recently just went through a similar process. I ended up deploying a TFTP
server using Ansible which included the Ubuntu Netboot PXE boot image to
provision new VMs. Using this method along with some shell scripts to help
along the way has worked out great for me. I will also be uploading more
Patel,
Have you had any luck on this yet? I have gone down this path about a month
or so ago. I am in the process of sharing back on the processes that I have
come up with. Below is the flow.
1. Deploy TFTP server via Ansible which includes Ubuntu Netboot and
configures all required services (TF
We have recently setup a similar workflow for RHEL 6 and 7. Here are the
steps if anyone is interested.
1. We enter the server's information into our custom database (MySQL)
that we use to track our inventory. We also use this table to create our
dynamic inventory for Ansible. The t
Hi Mark,
Thanks for posting that code, I've been unsure of how to extra the mac
address for newly created VM's. I can now parse that to cobbler to
create/update vm's.
Is anyone else using a similar workflow? I'm only using cobbler because we
presently use it allows us to use our existing kickstar
Hello,
I've recently done just this - and I coupled the VM creation with PXE
booting. I have two PXE menus in place, the default one just says 'boot to
HD'. The other one is the install menu, with a kickstart line. I control
the use of this with Ansible by doing the following:
https://gist.git
