On 06/11/2014 12:23 PM, Will Dennis wrote: > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ >
Cobbler works very well, but honestly it's a little stale and no longer heavily developed. Michael hasn't worked on Cobbler for a number of years AFAIK. Foreman is the new hotness, especially if you are using Puppet. I'd take a look at it: http://theforeman.org/ We are migrating all our Cobbler instances to Foreman FWIW. Cheers, Brian _______________________________________________ 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/
