Deploying Linux Images on Bare-metal
(CfgMgmtCamp18)
By Elias Abacioglu
Slides Live @ https://goo.gl/jGTFTV
Agenda & Conduct
- About Me
- The Challange
- The Past
- The Now
- The Why
- The How
- "Demospöket"
- Improvements
- Questions and Links
Slides Live @ https://goo.gl/jGTFTV
The ego slide
Why listen to me?
Who is Elias?
The Sutcliffe (gwmngilfen) challange
How we used to do
Assumption - A bunch of you are using preseed, kickstart
How we do now
Why change something that "works"?
- Preseed, Kickstart, AutoYAST
- Partman
- Takes FOREVER!
- No solution!
The Why!
The Recipe
- Network boot (PXE, TFTP, HTTP)
- Bootable lightweight script executioner (Discovery image)
- Partitioning tools
- Filesystem tools
- Scripts (kernel cmdline)
- Linux images (diskimage-builder)
- Cloud-Init (bootstrap)
Demo
time
Room for improvements
- REX
- More Ready Templates
- Better Documentation
- ZFS
- ...
- Pull requests / issues wanted
Q&A + Links
Contact
#theforeman or Raboo - Freenode
Links
https://github.com/deltaprojects/foreman_discovery_image_installer
https://github.com/openstack/diskimage-builder
https://theforeman.org/plugins/foreman_discovery
My blog @ https://something.fail
Deploying Linux Images on bare-metal
By Elias Abacioglu