Automation across physical servers / VMWare

[m.roth at 5-cent.us]

Daniel Tate wrote:
> We have some physical servers (prod) and some VM Servers (nonprod) - 4
> different configurations, each with different add on packages not in
> the distro - so we need something that can install tripwire, hp tools,
> vvmware tools, etc afterwards.   Im happy doing kickstart files for
> each, but i want to explore the options.
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Here's a thought: build one without the extra stuff, and clone it to the
four different configurations. Then hand-add the extras to each of the
four. Once you've done that, you can clone them very easily: the way we do
it here is to install a minimal system via PXEboot, then rsync /boot and /
to /boot/new and /new, and rotate from there (zsh, w/ zmodload, does what
bash won't, btw).

         mark