On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 09:56:58AM -0500, Brian J. Atkisson wrote: > Cobbler works well, but it's a little stale these days. > You might also look at http://theforeman.org
The team I'm on used Cobbler to provision ~40 Linux servers (mixed RHEL/CentOS 5/6), with another ~30 in the next few months. We're happy with our choice. There's been a new release in the last few weeks. + Overall design is solid and well thought out. Supports the PXE-boot/Anaconda kickstart model. + Well documented, has been easy to debug. + Source seems well structured, well-written. + Dual GUI and CLI make it easy to manage and maintain. + The principal maintainer has a strong presence on lists and IRC, responsive to support needs and feature requests. + Actively developed and maintained. + Full-featured templating language allowed us to write a unified base kickstart template for our RHEL 5/6 Oracle db servers, OFM app servers, file servers, etc. + Integrates well with Puppet. - UI is a little clunky, but steadily improving. - Integration with VMWare workstation didn't extend to VMWare ESXi last time we investigated (wasn't a deal-breaker). -- Charles Polisher _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
