I don't think you need any specially scaling tools for ~ 50 nodes. We've been doing around 40-50 nodes with cobbler in 2009 already.
Greetings Andre ----- Am 29. Apr 2015 um 17:38 schrieb Alan Crosswell [email protected]: > You might want to take a look at Puppet Lab's Razor which is designed for > scale. > I've been playing around with it a bit to compare it to Cobbler. > /a > > > On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 11:57 PM, Alan Evangelista < > [email protected] > > wrote: > > > On 04/29/2015 12:51 AM, Jagga Soorma wrote: > > > I now have a > requirement to build a cluster with 50+ nodes and was wondering how to > automate this as much as possible. Has anyone out there already done > something similar? If so, how did you approach this? I would hate to > tell someone to run the cobbler system add command for 50 servers. > > I suppose you have a list of the MAC addresses and power management data (and > maybe > IP addresses) of the 50+ nodes. Simply create a Python script which creates > the > missing > system data (eg name) automatically and uses Cobbler CLI / XML-RPC interface > to > add the > systems to Cobbler. > > > Regards, > Alan Evangelista > > > _______________________________________________ > cobbler mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler > > > > -- > > > _______________________________________________ > cobbler mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler -- André Gemünd Fraunhofer-Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing [email protected] Tel: +49 2241 14-2193 /C=DE/O=Fraunhofer/OU=SCAI/OU=People/CN=Andre Gemuend _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
