On Monday, October 20, 2014, 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 > Alan, At one of my previous employers, I used cobbler to dhcp a from scratch Linux OS that ran in memory. It would come online and then run a small script to connect to cobbler via the super simple xmlrpc api, get a list of interfaces (set with the MAC address for each interface), write out /etc/Iftar, and actually rename all of the interfaces and ip them with cobbler as the authoritative source. That might be a more advanced use case but is absolutely a valid one. Please don't remove a feature like this. My take on config management (puppet, salt, ansible, etc) is that you should setup the partitioning and network bits before the config management runs. Please don't alienate users just because you don't use a given feature. -- Text by Jeff, typos by iPhone
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