Michael DeHaan wrote: > I'm working on some features on the development branch (Cobbler 1.3 and > later) that will make it very easy for admins to set up new > machines/nodes so that they are running Func out of the box. I think > this is a very powerful way to deploy things so that they are > controllable later and should hopefully introduce more people to Func > (http://fedorahosted.org/func). > You can read more about what I'm doing here: > > https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/wiki/FuncIntegration > > On a related note, I still need some help testing the Puppet external > nodes integration feature on the devel branch ... > https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/wiki/UsingCobblerWithConfigManagementSystem > > In conjunction these become nicely powerful in that you have a config > management system and also a system (Func!) for one-off tasks, misc > scripting, and "do this now!" type activity. Coupled with a deployment > system (Cobbler) this becomes especially nice. > > Read an outside view on this in terms of Francesco Crippa's presentation > to Linux TAG this year: > > http://people.byte-code.com/fcrippa/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/fcrippa_large-scale-env.pdf > > --Michael > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > cobbler mailing list > [email protected] > https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler >
I updated this a bit to talk about using Cobbler to mirror the packages Func needs. This is already discussed at https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/wiki/ManageYumRepos but I figured it might be non-obvious that Func wasn't in the core for Fedora and/or EL. --Michael _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
