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Frank -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Eystein Måløy Stenberg Sent: Friday, October 26, 2012 11:40 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [lopsa-tech] How do you do provisioning Hi gents, I would like to ask for your experiences when it comes to bringing a server from bare metal to production-ready. From talking to people, it seems like there are many ways this is done. I assume you are using network-booting to kick things off? Are you just provisioning one operating system? If not, how do you make the selection between multiple OSes? Is this fully automated (e.g. using mac-addresses)? Is this important to you, or do you provision the same OS >90% of the time? Do you have a separate environment where you do your provisioning? How do you move between the provisioning environment and the production environment? One option I've seen is physically replugging the server to separate production from PXE environment. Is there a more automated way to do this? One problem I can see for automation is that the PXE booting relies on DHCP, and you don't want multiple DHCP servers (production vs. PXE environment). What about relying on static IPs for production servers, and only using DHCP for new servers? Finally, what are your biggest problems with your setup (if any)? How could you save more time and make it easier? Do you have thoughts or plans for the future? I really appreciate any experiences you would like to share on this topic. Thank you. -- Eystein Stenberg CFEngine _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/ _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
