Hi all, We have a research dept that has cooked up a homebrew provisioning system over time, that uses PXE, kickstart, some custom scripts, and Puppet to provision their bare-metal servers. While it has worked well in the past, its showing some rust (there's been a reduction of sysadmin love to this system over time, and now they don't really have a sysadmin guy, which is why I'm looking at getting involved...) and to be honest, it's kind of overly complicated for what they are doing now.
When I got the info on this system, I thought it sounded pretty much just like what Cobbler does. I have not used Cobbler in the past, but I understand the concepts to a certain extent (our central IT dept has a provisioning system too that uses PXE and can do installs of certain base operating systems, but during the install it's a manual config process [i.e. no kickstart.]) So before I dig in too far to Cobbler (I do have a vanilla Cobbler system set up in my lab now, and it works to install CentOS minimal on a server) I thought I'd ask if Cobbler is still the best kind of provisioning system for RHEL-family (and/or Ubuntu, which we also use somewhat) or is there a better choice out there that I should investigate? Also, if anyone knows if using Ansible is a good fit with Cobbler, and has info, I'd love to find that. (Seems like it would be, since Michael DeHaan was the lead of both these systems, although it looks like from the Cobbler mailing list, he doesn't get too involved with Cobbler any longer...) Thanks, Will
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