I thought about DHCP for static addresses. I'd need the MAC for each machine though. For now, I'm worrying about plugging some media or doing network boot on machines by hand. I suppose I'll need to do something on the host to indicate what the machine role will be. In any case, I could simply use a small pool of dynamic addresses as temporary addresses, and ping for machines in that range from the server, then let the user know there's a new machine waiting and to designate a purpose (role). Then, assign static address and restart it in it's new location, letting puppet finish provisioning. I'll have a look at Foreman. Need to think about my use case, which probably isn't so uncommon.
David On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Brian Gallew <g...@gallew.org> wrote: > Never forget the DHCP does NOT necessarily mean "dynamic addresses". > Depending upon your corporate culture, it may be perfectly acceptable for > DHCP to hand out statically assigned addresses to your hosts. This would > allow your build process to be easy, and you can have the host never DHCP > again after it's up and running (until you rebuild it!). > > > On Feb 22, 2011, at 8:15 AM, Jonathan Gazeley wrote: > > > We have a small pool of DHCP IP addresses for use only in the build > process. This is our process: > > > > 1. We boot the servers from PXE network boot > > > > 2. They get one of the temporary IPs > > > > 3. They start a CentOS network install using a kickstart file with the > bare minimum of packages selected, including puppet > > > > 4. The last stage of the kickstart is to set puppet running > > > > 5. At this stage, human intervention is required to authorise the new > machine in puppetca. I'm aware that it is possible to have this step done > automatically, but it can be a security risk. > > > > 6. Once the server is authorised in puppet, it receives a basic "common" > config from puppet, which gives it the proper static IP that it should have, > disables DHCP, sets the hostname, sets up NTP, etc. > > > > 7. From now on, it's dead easy to use puppet to install and configure > everything else. > > > > Cheers, > > Jonathan > > > > ---------------------------- > > Jonathan Gazeley > > Systems Support Specialist > > ResNet | Wireless & VPN Team > > IT Services > > University of Bristol > > ---------------------------- > > > > On 22/02/11 15:47, David Kavanagh wrote: > >> I'm about to start playing with Kickstart. I never really had to > >> provision bare servers beyond a normal OS install, so I need something > >> to use along with Puppet. Is there a general consensus on what the best > >> option is? > >> I'd need to set up the node with IP/hostname/role. (I have a custom fact > >> for role). I figured I'd simply ssh in to write the role file, but if > >> I'd rather not use dhcp, I suppose I'll need to get the network > >> interface configured in another way. What do folks generally do here? > >> > >> David > >> > >> -- > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > >> Groups "Puppet Users" group. > >> To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. > >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >> puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > >> For more options, visit this group at > >> http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > > To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
