On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 5:28 PM, Nico Schottelius < [email protected]> wrote:
> Hey Thomas, > > Thomas S Hatch [Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 05:27:16PM -0600]: > > I really need to get my stuff on this out into the wild, I use ramdisk > > network boots, I had to modify the mkinitcpio but it works amazingly > well. > > So I never install systems, I just reboot them into new root images. > > Interesting approach, we're doing something similar with nfsroot > sometimes. > > Though for this issue in particular, I'm more interested in > installing real systems, so I could in theory drive my business > with archlinux. > > > The problem is that I need to refine it a great deal. > > > > If you are however interested in automating virtual machine installs you > can > > use varch: > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Varch > > Had a look at that, does not really match what I'm searching for. > > > Also, are you using puppet? I could not live without it in the > datacenter. > > We've just migrated away from puppet to cdist for various reasons, > including, but not limited to push vs. pull approach, no high level > language / interpreter requirements and hopefull more clean error > messages. > > You can find more about cdist at > http://www.nico.schottelius.org/software/cdist/. > > Cheers, > > Nico > > -- > PGP key: 7ED9 F7D3 6B10 81D7 0EC5 5C09 D7DC C8E4 3187 7DF0 > I will have to look into cdist. I have been working on a project for distributed system management called salt recently that could be used as the push medium for something like cdist: https://github.com/thatch45/salt
