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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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CoreOS Fleet Vs. Ansible

Maybe this is a stupid question, but I've been working with Ansible, and I just came across CoreOS Fleet. I could be wrong, but Fleet seems to do almost the exact same in terms of just being another tool to provision/run commands on multiple…
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Deploying a windows machine with ansible and sysprep

I was wondering if you could help me? I'm trying to deploy a windows server 2012R2 base image using the vsphere ansible module. I have created a Vsphere template where the guest machine has WinRM enabled, as per the powershell script on the…
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Foreman provisioning stuck in "Pending Installation" 409 Conflict on all installs

I'm testing Foreman but all the VMs I've created get stuck in a boot loop unless I manually disable PXE boot. In the UI i see the machine as "Pending Installation" even after the puppet agent reports in. From the log file I've verified that the…
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foreman, DHCP smart proxy, network set-up

How would I go about setting foreman up so it hands out a lease to any machine I connect to one of its interfaces using a private IP in the 192.168-range during provisioning, but to supply the client with it's actual IP (either public, or private in…
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Ansible sudo error while building on Atlas

I've been trying to build my Vagrant configuration on Atlas. Also I'm using ansible for provisioning and i have some sudo issues. After setting up VM while trying to run ansible playbook on Atlas I get this error: virtualbox-iso: failed: [127.0.0.1]…
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Vagrant and MariaDB (provision)

I'm trying to create a provision file that installs MariaDB but it keeps failing. The provision looks like this: sudo apt-get install -y software-properties-common sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80…
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Using Management classes with cobbler

So, I've been working on creating a standardized install image, and worked out all the kinks, now I need to deliver it. What I decided to do is to use cobbler to create templated kickstart installs, but I've hit a bit of a documentation dead-zone:…
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Server deployed without HP Intelligent Provisioning. How do I bring up to spec?

I have a few servers that were configured without HP Intelligent Provisioning, possibly because the datacenter was without Internet access at the time. Is is possible to reliably, and consistently get this server up to spec (on par with other…
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puppet provisioning, new node, update configuration on master

What would be the preferred way to update the configuration of one node when provisioning new nodes? E.g. let's say there is a cluster-like environment i am provisioning nodes, let's say these nodes need to access a memcached or MySQL Server on some…
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Unable to install nginx from source in provisioning script

I'm using Vagrant to build a reproducible virtual machine for one of my projects. This virtual machine needs a basic LEMP stack, and I'm using a shell script to provision it after it's created. The part I'm having trouble with is installing nginx…
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"cannot receive new filesystem stream: invalid backup stream" error when unpacking flash archive on solaris 10

I've searched around but i'm having no luck with some peculiar behavior with a flash archive. I'm using HP Server Automation 9.14 to deploy the OS. I'm creating a Solaris 10 flash archive to create a snapshot default build in our environment. I…
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Check version using Chef

I have a small application installed on a few servers, I wanted to write a quick recipe that will allow me to gather the version number from these servers. This is what I've written: bash "Get app version" do code <<-EOH cat…
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Manage multiple ssh-keys for one user with Chef

I started to use Chef in my infrastructure, but cannot make recipe like this: -each developer has own public ssh-key. -in remote server there is an unique user, named ubuntu I want to use data bags with users, like data_bags/users/jeff.json,…
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What would be the best method to provide my server environment as a software package to be installed on a different server?

I have some software running on my AWS cloud and I would like to be able to offer this software package as an on-premise solution so that anyone can configure it on their own servers. What would be the best way to make this process as painless as…
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Manage multiple zLinux SuSE Servers

My shop virtualizes a few hundred SuSE 11.1 servers through IBM's zVM hypervisor. (If you've never heard of zVM, it runs on a mainframe and virtualizes Linux in the s390x architecture. It's a different beast than most of you are used to. The guys…
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