On 06/25/2012 02:25 PM, David Nalley wrote:
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.
I think it is more or less inevitable that the user/cloud installer has
to do a bit more then just run "install my cloud on this cluster".
However, I do not see this an an issue for the project. This is where
"integrators" can differentiate themselves. What the project should
provide is god documentation about the setup, and the things that need
to be in the rudimentary PXE boot image that gets shipped to the box on
which the cloud node is to be installed. This doc should also contain
the configuration of the rudimentary image.
Regardless of the licensing issue, I don't think the project would want
to ship such a rudimentary image.
My $0.02
Robert
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