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Provisioning - manual and/or automated OS deployments to physical and virtual machines.

OS Provisioning is at the base of the System Administrative task list: creating standard server builds that can be repeated either via following manual processes or implementing solutions such as kickstart, jumpstart, unattend, ignite, autoyast, NIM or WDS.

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Provisioning DELL servers using only linux tools

We have taken delivery of a bunch off Dell Poweredge Rack servers. Unfortunately when ordering it was neglegted to ask for dhcp to be enabled in the built in iDRAC controlers... So they are all stuck on the same IP address. Which means that I'll…
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Vagrant / chef - nginx cookbook extend

I am fairly new to using chef, particularly with vagrant so this will most likely be a silly question to the more experienced users out there. I am using this cookbook: https://github.com/opscode-cookbooks/application_nginx I simply want to add my…
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Why can't “knife data bag from file” find existing json file on chef server?

Summary: I'm running into a problem with "knife data bag from file", where knife doesn't recognize the .json data bag file pulled down from a remote git repo. Background: I'm currently trying to transition from chef-solo use to chef server while…
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Kickstart: Serve dynamic kickstart images via a CGI or PHP script?

I'd like to Kickstart a couple dozen RHEL6/SL6 servers. However, some of these servers are different and I don't want to create a new ks.cfg file for each class of server. Is there any way I can generate a Kickstart file dynamically on the fly, from…
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What options do I have to clone a physical server as easily as a virtual machine?

We use virtual machines a great deal at my company, Hyper-V mainly but we have also dabbled with ESXi plus vCenter. Besides the traditional advantage of being able to consolidate many physical machines onto one server, we find the ease of…
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What's the definition and difference between provision and bootstrap?

What would "provision a machine" mean, compared to "bootstrapping a machine"? I see that provision is mostly used when talking about Puppet and Chef, and bootstrapping seams to be mentioned more closely to a machines booting process (really early…
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2008 R2 RDS Client Printers Disappearing?

So my issue is something I can find nothing on and is very hard to track down. I am working with Microsoft and Citrix support but am getting nowhere and my client is becoming frustrated on the lack of movement, which is why I'm posting here! The…
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Vagrant single box with multiple addressable domain.locals

I currently utilize Vagrant and Chef to provision individual linux VMs for different apps. These apps are domain addressable from host, without requiring anything else set up on the host. This is achieved using avahi on the linux guest. Host then…
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Variable Expansion in Cobbler kopts

In my environment I have large numbers of systems with two interfaces, one is used for system access and management and the other is used for network monitoring. They both are in a link-up state but the monitoring port is TX blocked. When using koan…
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Using Chef Solo to provision a Windows EC2 instance and bootstrap it

I'm trying to automate our CI process for a couple of .NET apps, and in a perfect world I'd like to spin up a Windows EC2 instance for each, bootstrap the instance to install Chef Solo and then execute a Chef recipe to install some dependencies and…
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Generate TFTP Content on the fly?

I know this isn't the purpose of TFTP, but I'm working in an environment where a lot of different types of devices pull provisioning info from a TFTP server. What I'm developing is a provisioning system that tracks and maintains device…
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Professional workflows to Deploy via Git?

I have written a set of bash + crontab scripts that basically let me take a new linux server and deploy a git repo to it. All fine and good, but it's a rather piecemeal process and am wondering if there are some pointers on a more…
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How to provision a node via puppet if it's using an image-based virtualization technology?

I'm trying to integrate puppet and vSphere via this module: https://forge.puppetlabs.com/puppetlabs/vsphere This module lets you create servers via a few lines of puppet code. I have a vm template that I'm cloning from. It has vmware tools and…
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NixOS reproducible users and packages?

I'm new to NixOS and trying to learn its concepts. One of the reasons I'm excited about it is I'm hoping it will be able to give me a reproducible system configuration, similar to using Ansible for localhost. However, I am not sure how to achieve…
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Detecting Infrastructure Provider in Puppet

Note: we use Puppet standalone (master-less) i.e. puppet apply. Usually, while deploying a web application there are a number of back-end services and applications that run behind the front-facing application - things like the database, search…
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