On Wed, 3 Aug 2016, Chris Samuel wrote:
On Wednesday, 3 August 2016 1:10:05 PM AEST Russell Coker via luv-main wrote:
What system do you recommend for creating such images? Puppet? Chef?
We've been using Puppet for infrastructure VMs but now migrating to using Salt instead. https://saltstack.com/
Salt eh? I'm reminded of this -- p6 on: http://sysadmin.miniconf.org/2016/lca2016-martin_krafft-ssh_botnet.pdf
Our clusters continue to use xCAT, but they're all RHEL based. http:// xcat.org/
Just don't use Bright Cluster Manager. Don't ask me how I know to give you this anti-recommendation. But stay away from golden image based deployments anyway. Start of with a kickstart, FAI etc based deployment, followed by configuration managing an installation of a known set of packages with a known set of configuration changes. Anything else will result in you asking WTF you installed 5 years ago that you now can't repeat because dozens of people have come in in the meantime and made random changes in random places (including the image that started getting deployed 3 years and 2 months ago, but only when deployed from datacentre C) without documenting anything (and that includes all of your own personalities and drunken states). -- Tim Connors