Re: [lopsa-tech] Provisioning systems

2014-02-17 Thread Zack Williams
On Feb 17, 2014, at 1:52 PM, Tom Limoncelli wrote: > > Do any of these support Windows installation? It's not a provisioning system, but I use iPXE + wimboot to bootstrap windows installations in a way that could take input from a provisioning system. The software is here: http://ipxe.org/w

Re: [lopsa-tech] Provisioning systems

2014-02-17 Thread Tom Limoncelli
Do any of these support Windows installation? It doesn't have to have deep support, but it can't break horribly when installing an OS it doesn't know about. ___ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech

Re: [lopsa-tech] Provisioning systems

2014-02-17 Thread Matt Lawrence
On Mon, 17 Feb 2014, Brad Beyenhof wrote: I’ve used FAI & cobbler, but prefer the latter. I like the hybrid web GUI / CLI aspect of cobbler. My current workplace uses a PXE/kickstart server that works OK; I just don’t like having to KVM into the box just to force PXE boot & start the kickstart

Re: [lopsa-tech] Provisioning systems

2014-02-17 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 12:33 PM, Brad Beyenhof wrote: > P.S. It looks from the documentation that FAI now supports other OSes than > Debian derivatives, The docs have claimed that to some extent for a long time; I recall it mentioning Solaris support in the 90s (but the work involved was insane

Re: [lopsa-tech] Provisioning systems

2014-02-17 Thread Brad Beyenhof
I’ve used FAI & cobbler, but prefer the latter. I like the hybrid web GUI / CLI aspect of cobbler. My current workplace uses a PXE/kickstart server that works OK; I just don’t like having to KVM into the box just to force PXE boot & start the kickstart. It’s good that the systems won’t ever acci

Re: [lopsa-tech] Provisioning systems

2014-02-17 Thread Mark Eisenblaetter
Hi, i'am working with FAI http://fai-project.org/ for some time now. only cavehead i would use it only in a debian/ubuntu environment. mark On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 7:45 PM, Matt Lawrence wrote: > On Sun, 16 Feb 2014, Tom Limoncelli wrote: > > Does anyone have direct experience with Crowbar,

Re: [lopsa-tech] Provisioning systems

2014-02-16 Thread Matt Lawrence
On Sun, 16 Feb 2014, Tom Limoncelli wrote: Does anyone have direct experience with Crowbar, Cobbler or other "bare metal" provisioning systems? I'd be interesting in hearing your opinion. I've worked with crowbar some. Neat idea, but the implemtation leaves a bit to be desired. There weren

Re: [lopsa-tech] Provisioning systems

2014-02-16 Thread Charles Polisher
On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 09:56:58AM -0500, Brian J. Atkisson wrote: > Cobbler works well, but it's a little stale these days. > You might also look at http://theforeman.org The team I'm on used Cobbler to provision ~40 Linux servers (mixed RHEL/CentOS 5/6), with another ~30 in the next few months.

Re: [lopsa-tech] Provisioning systems

2014-02-16 Thread Brian J. Atkisson
Cobbler works well, but it's a little stale these days. You might also look at http://theforeman.org Cheers, Brian > On Feb 16, 2014, at 9:46 AM, Christopher Webber wrote: > > I have used cobbler in the past but if I were going another round would > probably look at razor (https://github.com

Re: [lopsa-tech] Provisioning systems

2014-02-16 Thread Christopher Webber
I have used cobbler in the past but if I were going another round would probably look at razor (https://github.com/puppetlabs/Razor) Then again there is a side of me that is a big fan of roll your own if you have a well built cmdb. Probably worth mentioning, I am not sure how well any of these

[lopsa-tech] Provisioning systems

2014-02-16 Thread Tom Limoncelli
Does anyone have direct experience with Crowbar, Cobbler or other "bare metal" provisioning systems? I'd be interesting in hearing your opinion. https://github.com/crowbar/crowbar/wiki http://www.cobblerd.org/ Thanks! Tom -- Email: t...@whatexit.orgWork: tlimonce...@stackoverflow.com Skype