On 10/21/2014 02:25 PM, Jörgen Maas wrote:
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 <mailto: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
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I have multiple bonded interfaces and multiple vlans on all of my
machines, and use cobbler to install those - tearing that out of cobbler
would be a deal-breaker for me and send me packing to foreman/puppet,
leaving cobbler behind.
Mark
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