On this end, is there a go to equivalent for Debian derivatives? --Ted
On June 11, 2014 7:16:46 PM PDT, "Brian J. Atkisson" <br...@atkisson.net> wrote: >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 >> Tech@lists.lopsa.org >> 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 >Tech@lists.lopsa.org >https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech >This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/
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