Re: [Crowbar] Crowbar for non-PXE deployments

2013-05-21 Thread Judd Maltin
As someone who also thinks Ruby but types Perl, I can relate. Crowbar 1.x's use case is founded upon having complete control over the LAN. Effort to shoehorn it will be friendly and interesting, but hacking on code we plan to move away from. Crowbar 2 is a major refactor. The tools available to

Re: [Crowbar] Crowbar for non-PXE deployments

2013-05-21 Thread Timothy Rees
Hi Rob, We have security policies that forbid the use of both DHCP/PXE in segments of our datacenters. In order to have a unified deployment process, we would have to achieve it without either. The iDRAC/LC can be leveraged to mount a boot iso, however things such as IP assignment for the host w

Re: [Crowbar] Crowbar for non-PXE deployments

2013-05-21 Thread Rob_Hirschfeld
Tim, This has been discussed - it's tricky in CB 1.x because we rely on the PXE/DHCP discovery to register nodes in Chef for management. Question -> is your concern more about DHCP or PXE? DHCP helps w/ discovery and proving the sledgehammer inventory image. PXE is how sledgehammer and the i

Re: [Crowbar] Crowbar for non-PXE deployments

2013-05-21 Thread Adam Spiers
Hi Tim, Timothy Rees (reestr...@gmail.com) wrote: > This project recently came to my attention when I was looking for a generic > application that could be used to push OS deployments to Dell PowerEdge > bare-metal without the requirement of PXE. However, of course I now see > that this project d