Hi Alan, Here's some of the reasons i can think of why having support for multiple interfaces would be useful:
- Not everybody is using configuration management tools (eg. small environments) - Configuration management integration is rather weak (atm just Puppet) - It could be that pxe/install interface is physically separated from management (eg. Puppet) and/or production interfaces (eg. due to security policy) - Managing machine specific data with configuration management tools might not be that easy (eg. Puppet before Hiera got introduced) Hope this helps! Cheers, Jörgen On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 5:32 AM, Alan Evangelista <ala...@linux.vnet.ibm.com > wrote: > I would like to understand why Cobbler allows user to define several > network interfaces in system object. > Netboot and automated installation processes only require 1 network > interface and supporting multiple > network interfaces introduce complexity. Possible motivations I see: > > 1) allow user to quickly alternate between different network interfaces > for testing purposes > 2) automatically setup all network interfaces in a system > > imho motivation 2 is a strong point, but it goes beyond the scope of > network installation and automated > installation. I see in http://projects.theforeman.org/issues/2240 that > people are > requesting the same feature in Foreman to support automatic setup of all > network interfaces > using Puppet and its integration with Foreman. I think it makes more sense > to delegate this > task (automatic setup of all network interfaces) to a config management > tool (eg Puppet) > than do it in Cobbler, otherwise Cobbler ends up being a "do it all" tool. > > Maybe I have a restricted view of how and how much this feature is used, > so I'd like to get > some feedback from Cobbler community. > > > Regards, > Alan Evangelista > > _______________________________________________ > cobbler-devel mailing list > cobbler-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org > https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler-devel >
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