Unfortunately, even the commercial products are just huge wrappers around jumpstart, kickstart, nim, etc. With things like Opsware and Bladelogic for example, they handle multiple OS's, but use the underlining install system for the target OS and just create fancy wrappers. As such, any customization still requires know-how for the target OS. And once you start throwing hypervisors into the mix, well the options dry up quickly.
If the targets are all virtual machines, you could create generic images for your target OS's and focus on server/app config automation. Still requires tweaking to create the images the way you want, but saves you time on deployments. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Octave J. Orgeron Solaris Virtualization Architect and Consultant Web: http://unixconsole.blogspot.com E-Mail: unixcons...@yahoo.com *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* ----- Original Message ---- From: Ben Rockwood <b...@cuddletech.com> To: Michael Ramchand <mich...@ramchand.net> Cc: sysadmin-discuss@opensolaris.org Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 2:34:28 AM Subject: Re: [sysadmin-discuss] Jumpstart Alternatives Thanks to everyone for the responses... but JET is Jumpstart. I'm looking to expand into a platform independent imaging system that isn't just a net boot wrapper around the installer. The problem is that we're currently having to deal with in the data center is that most shops depend on both Jumpstart and Kickstart, or equivalent wrappers (JET, etc). Now we're seeing deployment of hypervisors or increasing deployment of variants such as Ubuntu or OpenSolaris that don't have good net install options. We need a new agnostic network installation system. benr. Michael Ramchand wrote: > I don't know what I'd do without JET. :-) > > The "official" documentation/product pages are here: > > http://wikis.sun.com/display/JET > > Mike > > Christine Tran wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Octave Orgeron >> <unixcons...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> >>> I use JET. >>> >> >> Likewise. Jumpstart + Solaris DHCP is awful but JET makes all that go >> away. It supports building zones as well. We use it to turn around >> large number of servers and I cannot imagine doing it without JET. >> I'm surprised JET is still pretty much supported by a couple of guys >> at SunPS UK and appears to be relegated to "interesting project" >> stature. But shh ... maybe that's why it's still good, productize it >> and it'll be dead in 8 months. >> >> CT >> >> >>> Works with x86/sparc and does bootp, wanboot, and pxeboot for >>> Solaris. You can do flash archive and traditional network installs. >>> Also supports Linux. It's a good framework, modular, and enables you >>> to do templates. I've used it over the past 6-7 years and had a lot >>> of success with it. >>> >>> http://jet.maui.co.uk/wiki/index.php/Main_Page >>> >> >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > sysadmin-discuss mailing list > sysadmin-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/sysadmin-discuss > _______________________________________________ sysadmin-discuss mailing list sysadmin-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/sysadmin-discuss _______________________________________________ sysadmin-discuss mailing list sysadmin-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/sysadmin-discuss
