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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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Chef - Automatically add nodes to chef server

How would you configure a VM so that it will automatically register with a chef server? I know that I could use knife bootstrap, however that is very tedious if you are starting dozens of servers at once. The Chef documentation says to use…
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Install image with Ansible via IPMI?

Is there a way to install an image on and provision a bare metal SuperMicro IPMI server from the ground up with Ansible via in-band IPMI over VPN? I'm looking to see if I can automate the installation part of the process so all I need to do is add…
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Is it possible to use Docker or Vagrant to provision a physical machine

Currently at my work we use buildroot to provision physical machines with Debian linux. Buildroot compiles a rootfs.cpio.gz file which the machines to be provisioned pick up using PXE, runs a script which gives us some install time options, then…
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How to upload configuration files using the shell provider?

Apart from installing applications like emacs on my guest machine, I would also like to upload some configuration files (e.g. to configure emacs for Clojure development). Sadly, Vagrant's documentation gives no clue about how to do this. I guess I'd…
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Data Center Automation tools and Novell Suse Linux?

I'm looking for info to automate the patching/updating process for several hundred Suse machines. Apart from Zenworks and SMT is there other patch management/automation tools you know with good support on Novell SLES OS? I found several tools but…
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Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK) with a raw Windows 2008R2 ISO

I am new to WAIK, and am trying to figure out how to build a WIM image from the Windows 2008 R2 ISO media. So far I have been unsuccessful in finding this information. Is this possible, and if so, what am I missing from the TechNet documentation?
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Server installation logging / logbook / diary?

Are there some ways field-tested ways to keep a kind of logbook for a server? Including: software installations (and de-installations) custom configurations (e.g. of a webserver, ssh daemon, etc.) personal notes The big picture. I am preparing a…
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How do I configure a guest VM's static IP address automatically in Citrix XenServer?

To facilitate automation of guest VM provisioning, how do I set (in a script) the IP address on a guest VM's NIC (or NIC's) once a new VM has booted? Is there a way to "inject" netsh commands via the Citrix guest OS tools (for Windows for example)…
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Disk provison for new vSphere enviroment

I'm deploying a vsphere environment with more than 200 new vm on 20TB datastore and stuck with disk provisioning. Eager zeroed was used before, but for 100 vm it will take a lot of time and i'm thinking about lazy zeroed. Are there any differences…
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NFS-Client Provisioner stucked at ContainerCreating

I followed this(https://matthewpalmer.net/kubernetes-app-developer/articles/kubernetes-volumes-example-nfs-persistent-volume.html) link and installed an NFS server in my cluster with blow yaml file: kind: Service apiVersion: v1 metadata: name:…
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Windows 10: Provisioned app not installed properly, correct version but 0 bytes app and data

I'm trying to provision an application as part of an image prepared in audit mode and then syspreped and then captured. The app is sideloaded since it is a Line Of Business app and the version of Windows Enterprise 2019 LTSC, version 1809 build…
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HPE ProLiant DL60 Gen 9 - Please attach some optical or iLO media before continuing

I'm trying to reinstall the OS on a HPE ProLiant DL60 Gen9 but it refuses to find the built in DVD drive. I pressed F10 during boot (Provisioning) to install and after the "Select operation system" screen it says "Please attach some optical or iLO…
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Cloud-Config - Hashed Password Being Set Incorrectly

I'm provisioning an Ubuntu 14.04 server with Digital Ocean and am using Cloud-Config in the user data field to do some initial setup. The issue I am having is creating a new user and setting a password with a SHA-512 hashed password string. Upon…
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Securely deploying secrets to boxes during provisioning

During a fully automated deployment on physical hardware (using pxeboot / preseed / kickstart to install and configure a minimal system for bootstrapping) we need to deploy certain secrets - such as our Chef validation key, and a secret key for…
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Any way to re-run the chef-solo provisioner on a packer built machine?

I'm building VirtualBox machines using Packer and the chef-solo provisioner. Is there a way to re-run chef from within the VM as recipes are updated without needing to re-run packer build?
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