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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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Issues with Ansible's default/error handling in a playbook

I'm having some issues with Ansible and the way it defaults to values. What I'm trying to accomplish is to bind a Docker container to on eth1, if it exists, otherwise use lo. My initial approach was to use the defaulting undefined variables as…
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Auto provisioning with IPMI

I have been looking for a way to auto provision servers using IPMI. I want to basically have a preconfigured linux O.S. and provision it to servers over the IPMI network. I read on a few software suits that can accomplish this but was wondering if…
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Using Puppet with complex Nginx VirtualHosts

I'm trying to use Puppet and a Nginx plugin to manage a virtual host config file. I have everything working, but now that I need to add some rewrite rules I'm running into issues. I know I can use syntax like the line below to add a simple…
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Start a sub provision in Salt

I need to have two project. One is to set up the server. The other is the web app. I'm trying to use SaltStack to do this via Vagrant. What I want to happen is that after the server is provisioned, I want to be able to call to the folder where…
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Tools for laptop software provisioning?

At our company, we receive a laptop that is mostly pre-configured for a new employee using their own software provisioning tool. However, with our development teams, there tends to be a number of additional tools and settings that we need to set up…
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Is it possible to create a RHEL 5.7 channel based on updated (5.9) RHEL channels in Satellite?

I would however like to kickstart new servers based on RHEL 5.7. Both official Red Hat channels in Satellite are already updated to RHEL 5.9 and RHEL 6.4 though. Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 for 64-bit x86_64) Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v.…
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Why does Satellite need a kickstartable distribution for cloned channels, but not on the official main Red Hat Channel?

I have been using Satellite for a while now and I am able to kickstart machines directly from the official main RH channels Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 for 64-bit x86_64) Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6 for 64-bit x86_64) I want to…
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Dependencies of puppet modules

I am trying to get acquainted with puppet, so here is my n00b question. In a module I want to use there are some includes, like include gcc include wget If I just install this module and use it in my manifest, I will get an error that classes…
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Recommendations for bootstrapping Ubuntu server

When I create new Ubuntu 12.10 instances, I typically bootstrap them by manually SSHing onto the machine and editing the sudoers to put a NOPASSWD on the default user (e.g., ec2-user, azureuser, etc.). Then my install scripts can sudo various…
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Provision server with chef-solo as root?

I'm using knife to bootstrap my VM with vanilla Debian 7.0 installation. In bootstrap stage I'm just setting sources.list, updating & upgrading system, then I install buil-essential, rsync and ruby1.9.1 (with rubygems). As a last step, my bootstrap…
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virtualization automation

Basic idea of what I'm trying to do: I'd like to setup a virtual staging cluster for a website i'm working on. Ideally I'd like to make a change, fire up and deploy it to the virtual staging cluster, then bring down a sample of data from production…
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Software to automate physical provisioning of GRUB, linux, windows, dualboot

Is there software that can help automate (or make it repeatable) setting up PC's or lab servers where the setup includes GRUB for bootloading multi-boot for Windows, Debian, CentOS, etc. I was originally looking at tools like Boxgrinder and Cobbler,…
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Provisioning System for Enterprise

In our companie we have a lot of systems: CRM, ERP, payroll system, etc.. The problem is that NONE of these systems are integrated with our Active Directory. From a admin and security perspective this is painful. We don't just want to integrate the…
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Can I simulate a storage device in a VM to test OS image driver compatability?

Greetings, I'm trying to automate the testing of driver support in a library of OS images used for automated deployment in a data center environment. In most cases, I see people standardize on a few OSs and a few server hardware models, which makes…
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Provisioning environment(PXE) for windows xp, 7, server 2003, 2008 and RHEL 5

I am working for a small shop where we want to provision all the hosts from one single location. Right now, we use Legacy RIS on Win server 2003 to deploy hosts via PXE boot. Though this method works, but I wanted to know if the community has a…
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