On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 12:31 PM, David Lee <[email protected]> wrote: > (I'm new to cobbler, and using v 2.0.11) > > This is really a request for ideas. > > I'm trying to set up a network deployment and maintenance framework for > a rapidly growing number of Linux boxes. > > Cobbler, even though I'm new to it, seems to be an absolute treat. Thanks! > > Cobbler principally does the installation of a clean OS (more or less > "out of the box" from the manufacturer) onto the disk. I am strongly > resisting any urge to do any fine-grained tuning at this point, because > that should actually be classed as the first steps of the next item... > > 'cfengine' (v3.1.4) is ideal for long-term maintenance of such > installations. > > But it would be good if that installation procedure could be adjusted > just a little bit to include the installation of the 'cfengine3' rpm > from somewhere (as it is not part of the RHEL distribution) and a > minimal bit of associated scripting (or similar) to tickle 'cfengine' > into action as the freshly installed machine first boots. > > What might be a good, clean way to glue that cfengine install/initialise > onto the back end of the cobbler-based installation? > > > -- > : David Lee > : ECMWF (Data Handling System) > : Shinfield Park > : Reading RG2 9AX > : Berkshire > : > : tel: +44-118-9499 362 > : email: [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > cobbler mailing list > [email protected] > https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler >
I would suggest using Puppet over Cfengine for many reasons but either way.... You can take your Cfengine packages and put them in a yum repo and then add that repository to your cobbler master. Perhaps someone else hosts the yum repo and you just mirror it. Add that repo to a profile and then assign it to a system. Then on install that system will be able to yum -y install cfengine and friends and you can add that to your installers answerfile aka kickstart. So then you have a system that's being rebuilt and it has your configuration management system installed.... Now you just have to configure it... _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
