Hi David, I used Cobbler twice, rolled my own using kickstart twice, used the enterprisey Bladelogic once, haven't tried spacewalk yet.
I had generally excellent experiences with Cobbler when provisioning RHEL & CentOS. In a mixed environment with SUSE, less so. I concluded that in nearly all situations, the less you can put in kickstart package configs & %post the better, leave as much as possible to a CM tool like puppet, chef, cfengine, etc. Why? Mostly because you don't need to reprovision with every config file change to achieve consistency but also because problems get compounded if you have a heterogeneous environment. They're all fun tools so enjoy! -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Andre Courchesne Sent: May-04-12 11:50 AM To: Montreal Linux Users Group Subject: Re: [MLUG] Cobbler, Spacewalk, both? Hi David, I use Cobbler and it works great once you have your kickstart working properly. Can't speak of Spacewalk as I never tried it. On 2012-05-04, at 11:23 AM, David Filion wrote: > > Does anyone have experience using Cobbler or Spacewalk (or both)? If so, what do you think of them? Pros, cons? > > I have a large number of CentOS VMs to install and our current PXE setup requires too much manual configuration for our my liking so I'm looking for something better. > > > David > _______________________________________________ > mlug mailing list > [email protected] > https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.c a _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.c a _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
