On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 11:39 AM, James <wirel...@tampabay.rr.com> wrote: > Dale <rdalek1967 <at> gmail.com> writes: > > Besides, if I want to deploy 50 systems for a cluster, one at a time in > parallel what do you recommend? via handbook? The modern diversity of > hardware options has rendered the gentoo handbook, dysfunctional, at best, > imho. ymmv.
I have mixed feelings on this one. After reading some accounts in a completely different list I can see a lot of the value of just being able to click a few buttons and have gentoo running, and then having the luxury of tailoring it later. This was the driver to drop the stage1 installs in favor of stage3 in the first place. Still, if I were actually deploying on a cluster I don't think any of this is the way I'd probably do it. On a cluster I'd be more concerned with integration with a configuration management system. I'd be thinking more of things like openstack and coreos for the initial install, and then Gentoo is just something that goes on top (or in the case of coreos, underneath). It is a bit like sticking your filesystem on top of lvm - it just makes things easier down the road with almost zero cost. -- Rich
