One popular standard method is:
+ LDAP initial boot a box from Kickstart or equivalent deploying an
appropriate basic OS image
+ Ensure the post-image-install script includes a puppet agent package and
changes to let the box talk with a known puppet master
and autostart the puppet agent at system boot
+ Write more and more and more Puppet patterns to customize the system for
given uses
NFS server, Database server, Mail server, Compute Server, etc.
+ Ensure no "touch-the-cloud" ideas ever appear in non-Puppet form. Nobody as
superuser on boxes...
The point is to move more of the OS config and continuous drift-prevention into
puppet patterns which run 7x24 during
production or permit manual-only operation with post-mortem data capture
(lsof, ps, top, sar, etc.) for security analysis,
logging all changes either way to an audit trail to find out why change is
happening, when, and to trace it down to root
cause (busy/corrupted fingers, security compromises, phase-of-moon, gamma-rays,
etc.)
Further, your "glove boxes" become puppet-applied patterns which must go
through a repository-sourced-and-dr'ed
dev/test/limited-prod/extended-prod.
Additionals?
On Sep 11, 2013, at 10:20 PM, Rahul Khengare <rahulk1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Rastio,
> I dont think that puppet do operating system installation. Puppet is
> configuration management tool,
> you can use puppet to configure any software and operating system settings
> after puppet get install on your machine.
> For automatic installation of operating system there is tools called
> kickstart, cobler, etc.
>
> Refer following blog link about puppet and operating system installation
> relation,
> http://puppetlabs.com/blog/your-os-installer-and-you
>
> Thanks and regards,
> Rahul Khengare,
> NTT DATA OSS Center, Pune, India.
>
>
>
> On Thursday, September 12, 2013 1:08:02 AM UTC+5:30, Rastio Hodul wrote:
> Hi,
> ideally I would like to crate bootable USB stick with, say, Ubuntu + Puppet
> on it. I would then use this USB stick on a blank computer to boot to it and
> install new OS (Ubuntu+WhateverIWant) on that blank computer. I know I can do
> WhateverIWant part, but can I install actual OS?
>
> Thanks.
>
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