[Spacewalk-list] Cobbler Spacewalk integration

[Matthew Barr]

You're going to make me a very happy person when we get baremetal &  
para-virt (xen)  builds working from Spacewalk + Cobbler.


At this point I've migrated my kickstart logic from Satellite ->  
Cobbler, so I'm happy to provide any type of testing you might want.

Also, how will this affect activation keys, and such?  Best practices  
for Sat included activation keys which could be layerd, to avoid  
having much of the content in the kickstart files directly.  With  
templates & snippets, it'll be much easier to move the package install  
sections from the activation key to the kickstart file.

That does bring up another question.  Now that we have more control,  
will it be possible to clone the groups file & kickstart trees from a  
what was a RHN channel over to a custom base channel?


But overall, I can't wait.

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Matthew Barr
Community Connect  - Senior System Engineer
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On Jul 3, 2008, at 8:19 AM, Michael DeHaan wrote:

> Mike McCune wrote:
>> I updated the Roadmap:
>>
>> https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/TheRoadmap
>>
>> to include a link to:
>>
>> https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/CobblerKoanIntegration
>>
>> which is a work in progress but lays out some of the justifications  
>> and ideas around why we want to be able to bring Spacewalk and  
>> Cobbler together.
>>
>> Mike
>
> I made a few small edits to the second page, this looks good.
>
> As a basic summary to the list, I think the most useful thing we can  
> do for Spacewalk is get the bare metal deployment stuff in for the  
> first pass.  This means being able to do DHCP/DNS management, but  
> more importantly, having PXE "just work", having the integrated PXE  
> menus, and getting "cobbler buildiso" available for people who need  
> to do lots of bare-metal deployment but don't/can't have a netboot  
> infrastructure.
>
> --Michael
>
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