Naming convention for kickstarts

Chuck Anderson cra at WPI.EDU
Wed Mar 2 13:03:13 UTC 2011


On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 10:55:46PM -0700, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 22:23, brett lentz <brett.lentz at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 9:19 PM, Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> >
> > Forgive the question if it's already in place. I haven't checked.
> >
> > Are these hand-crafted kickstarts?  If so, why not use Cobbler (which
> > supports using Git to version control all of its config files
> > already)?
> >
> > I'm a big fan of being able to do 'koan --replace-self' on a system
> > when it's time to upgrade/reprovision.
> 
> I am too, but have come to realize there are some things I have to
> live without :).
> 
> The main issue about cobbler is that it is way too much kitchen sink
> with trying to deal with dhcp/bind and other items. [That said, the
> one I set up at my former job is still running quite well for close to
> 2 years now without any intervention.]

How about The Foreman?  It integrates with puppet but doesn't try to 
do DNS/DHCP by itself.


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