Most provisioning tool has this problem, the tiny Linux kernel. Now the PING is not maintained in CloudStack repo, I built a RPM for it based on its latest release. However, the RPM itself is delivered as a dependency in our installation tarball. How do these projects handle its license? are they all GPL as they ship a Linux kernel?
> -----Original Message----- > From: David Nalley [mailto:da...@gnsa.us] > Sent: Monday, June 25, 2012 11:26 AM > To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org > Subject: Re: Baremetal thoughts > > On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 2:02 PM, Frank Zhang <frank.zh...@citrix.com> > wrote: > > You may have known CloudStack has baremetal support in 2.2.14, let's call it > baremetal1. > > Baremetal1 uses PING(Partimage Is Not Ghost) to do image provisioning, > now I am working on designing baremetal2 which would support kickstart > installation and security group(for Linux). > > I am also choosing a better PXE provisioning software to replace PING, now > Razor comes into my mind http://nickapedia.com/2012/05/21/lex- > parsimoniae-cloud-provisioning-with-a-razor/. > > > > Any thoughts are welcome. > > > > So the immediate project that jumps to mind is Cobbler, but there are > licensing issues with inclusion. > Razor itself is nice and looks fascinating, but it boots a Linux image for > initial > inventory - is that a problem? (Same problem as PING) > http://puppetlabs.com/blog/introducing-razor-a-next-generation- > provisioning-solution/ > I suppose we could not ship the bootable image, but that seems a bit broken. > > > --David
