Subject is changed. Vladimir Kozhukalov
On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 4:55 PM, Vladimir Kozhukalov < vkozhuka...@mirantis.com> wrote: > Dear Fuelers, > > As you might know we need it to be possible to install several versions of > a particular OS (Ubuntu and Centos) by 6.1 As far as having different OS > versions also means having different sets of packages and some of the > packages are installed and configured during provisioning stage, we need to > have a kind of kickstart/preseed version mechanism. > > Cobbler is exactly such a mechanism. It allows us to have several Distros > (installer images) and profiles (kickstart/preseed files). But > unfortunately, for some reasons we have not been using those Cobbler's > capabilities since the beginning of Fuel and it doesn't seem to be easily > introduced into Nailgun to deal with the whole Cobbler life cycle. > > Anyway, we are moving towards IBP (image based provisioning) and we > already have different images connected to different OpenStack releases > (openstack.yaml) and everything else which is necessary for initial node > configuration is serialized inside provision data (including profile name > like 'ubuntu_1204' or 'ubuntu_1404') and we are able to choose cloud-init > template by this profile name. > > And taking into account what it is written above, the suggestion is to > completely avoid using kickstart/preseed based way of OS provisioning by > 6.1 for all new releases allowing ONLY old ones to use this way. > > Any opinions about that stuff are welcome. > > Vladimir Kozhukalov >
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