Cobbler

[Dazed_75]

The short answer is no.  In fact, I never heard of it before.  However,
since I have most things other than RedHat, CentOS, etc working and since
the video you cited seems to say that he has done it for CentOS, Fedora, but
explicitly is not addressing Ubuntu, Debian etc. this could be of interest
if we ever actually get anyone to USE the PXE server.  I would hate to build
two separate environments though.  I will look into this as I find time.

Thanks for the pointer!

On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Lisa Kachold <lisakachold at obnosis.com>wrote:

> *Anyone playing with this at the Installfest?*
>
>  *Cobbler is an install server; batteries are included..*
>
> Cobbler is a Linux installation server that allows for rapid setup of
> network installation environments. It glues together and automates many
> associated Linux tasks so you do not have to hop between lots of various
> commands and applications when rolling out new systems, and, in some cases,
> changing existing ones.
>
> With a simple series of commands, network installs can be configured for
> PXE, reinstallations, media-based net-installs, and virtualized installs
> (supporting Xen, qemu, KVM, and some variants of VMware). Cobbler uses a
> helper program called 'koan' (which interacts with Cobbler) for
> reinstallation and virtualization support.
>
> Cobbler is a small and lightweight application (about 15k lines of Python
> code). It tries to be extremely simple to use both for very small and very
> large installations -- as well as easy to work on, extend, and hack. It
> avoids being "enterprisey" (as in complicated) whenever possible, but is
> highly useful in all sorts of enterprises by having a lot of advanced
> features and doing small things to save a large amount of time in repeated
> tasks.
>
> Cobbler can also optionally help with managing DHCP, DNS, and yum package
> mirroring infrastructure -- in this regard, it is a more generalized
> automation app, rather than just dealing specifically with installations.
> There is also a lightweight built-in configuration management system, as
> well as support for integrating with configuration management systems like
> Puppet. Cobbler has a command line interface, a web interface (screenshot<https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/attachment/wiki/CobblerWebInterface/Screenshot.png>),
> and also several API access options. That sounds like a lot, but it's really
> pretty simple. New users may like to start with the web app after doing the
> initial setup steps on the command line (cobbler check; cobbler import) as
> it will give them a good idea of all of the features available. Advanced
> features don't have to be understood all at once, they can be incorporated
> over time as the need for them arises.
> excerpt from:  https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/
>
>
> http://terrarum.net/administration/centos-6-cobbler-server.html#server_environment
> http://openskill.info/blog.php?ID=16
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-QpCYKrVew  (Video)
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