Cobbler is licensed under the General Public License (GPL).
The latest source code (it's all Python) is available through git:
git clone git://git.fedorahosted.org/cobbler
git clone git://git.fedorahosted.org/koan
Source can also be browsed with gitweb:
CobblerFor information about development branches, see the Wiki.
Koan
Source RPMS and tarballs are available here
yum install cobbler # on the boot server
yum install koan # on target systems
The lastest stable releases of Cobbler and Koan are included in Extras Packages For Enterprise Linux and can be installed with yum. Since EPEL's main repository does not update super frequently, using EPEL Testing is recommended so you can get the latest packages. EPEL Testing. Packages pushed to EPEL testing for cobbler and koan are considered "stable", despite the repository being called "testing". To EL4 users to take advantage of all features of cobbler, they will want to upgrade yum and yum-utils to newer versions, as tools like yumdownloader and reposync are needed by commands such as "cobbler import" and "cobbler reposync".