Cobbler handles kickstarts on my VirtualBox network , but I need it to take care of Puppet too. setup puppetmasterd I’ll run puppetmasterd on my Kickstart server (‘shoemaker’, also my Cobbler server). By default, puppetd expects puppetmasterd to be on a host called ‘puppet’. That’s easy to arrange. # setup a CNAME of ‘puppet’ that points [...]
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PXE virtual network with Virtualbox and Cobbler
A while back I set up a virtual kickstart network with VMware Fusion and Cobbler on my Mac. But Fusion (unlike VMware server/workstation) made tweaking low-level settings hard, so I’ve switched to VirtualBox, which is free (for non-commercial/eductional use), has a kick-ass command line interface and much better networking options. Here’s a revised howto. why? I’ll just [...]
PXE testbed with Cobbler and VMware Fusion
UPDATE: unless you’ve got a good reason to want VMWare Fusion, I recommend looking at this post on using Virtualbox to run Cobbler instead. Something like Puppet could potentially make my life a lot easier. Puppet can’t do baremetal provisioning; it needs the base OS to be Jumpstart/Kickstarted on first. Fortunately: Cobbler makes running a [...]
