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Cobbler</br>
<p><a href="http://mdehaan.fedorapeople.org/">Michael DeHaan</a>,
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About Cobbler
<ul>
<li>Project started ~2005</li>
<li>Goal #1: bring sysadmins together to create and share superior deployment technology</li>
<li>Goal #2: provide tools for both physical AND virtual deployments</li>
<li>Goal #3: embrace the unix philosophy; simple tools working together</li>
<li>it's an application</li>
<li>it's also a web service for applications</li>
</ul>
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Who uses it?
<ul>
<li>A few examples: <A HREF="https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/wiki/WhoUsesCobbler">Who Uses Cobbler</A></li>
<li>Hosting companies</li>
<li>University departments</li>
<li>Research grids/clusters</li>
<li>Government agencies</li>
<li>Applications:
<ul>
<li><A HREF="http://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk">Spacewalk/Satellite</A></li>
<li><A HREF="http://ovirt.org">Ovirt.org</A></li>
<li><A HREF="http://fedorahosted.org/beaker">Beaker</A></li>
<li><A HREF="http://fedorahosted.org/genome">Genome</A></li>
<li>Various in-house software</li>
</ul>
</li>
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Types of Installs That Cobbler Performs:
<ul>
<li>Netboot/PXE by MAC, IP, or menu</li>
<li>re-installs / upgrades of an existing Linux systems</li>
<li>network install ISO generation (PXE not required)</li>
<li>virtual machines -- kickstarts or images</li>
</ul>
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Architectures supported (reinstalls & netboot):
<ul>
<li>x86 / x86_64</li>
<li>ppc / ppc64</li>
<li>ia64</li>
<li>s390 / s390x (requires Cobbler 1.5)</li>
</ul>
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What Works?
<ul>
<li>
Installation targets:
<ul>
<li>Red Hat Enterprise Linux</li>
<li>Fedora</li>
<li>CentOS, Scientific Linux</li>
<li>OpenSuSE</li>
<li>Debian (90% there)</li>
<li>Ubuntu (90% there)</li>
<li>Windows (virt, evolving)</li>
</ul>
<li>
Server platforms:
<ul>
<li>Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4+</li>
<li>any Fedora</li>
<li>Debian (partial; packaging pending)</li>
<li>OpenSuSE (partial; packaging pending)</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
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Conceptual overview:
<ul>
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Details about Bare Metal Installs:
<ul>
<li>Cobbler manages your PXE tree for you</li>
<li>Built-in PXE boot loop prevention</li>
<li>Auto-generated PXE menus for "off the truck" deployment</li>
<li>"cobbler buildiso" for situations that can't do PXE (static/policy-driven)</li>
</ul>
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Details about Reinstalls:
<ul>
<li>Suppose you don't have a PXE environment</li>
<li>You can reinstall a host over SSH</li>
<li>You can also perform upgrades this way</li>
<li>Works well with <A HREF="http://fedorahosted.org/func">Func</A></li>
</ul>
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Details about Virtual Installs:
<ul>
<li>Uses a helper tool called "koan"</li>
<li>Virtualization parameters are centrally managed</li>
<li>Control over RAM, CPU, disk</li>
<li>Built in support for LVM volume groups</li>
<li>
Choose your own adventure:
<ul>
<li>libvirt guests: Xen PV, FV, KVM</li>
<li>non-libvirt: VMware server, workstation, ESX (?)</li>
</ul>
</li>
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Need A Picture?
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Power Features:
<ul>
<li>Cheetah Powered -- Open Ended Templating Engine On Steroids</li>
<li>Snippets</li>
<li>Integrated Yum Mirroring</li>
<li>Advanced Networking Configuration -- bonding, vlans</li>
<li>DHCP Management</li>
<li>DNS Management</li>
<li>Power Management</li>
<li>Configuration Management Hooks (puppet)</li>
<li>Built-in Lightweight CMS</li>
<li>BIOS/Firmware upgrades (ex: Dell, HP)</li>
<li>Remotely erase machines (DBAN)</li>
<li>Extensive anaconda monitoring features</li>
<li>Multi-server replication (picture: next slide)</li>
</ul>
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Easy setup process:
<pre>
yum install cobbler
vim /etc/cobbler/settings
cobbler check
vim /etc/cobbler/settings # maybe
</pre>
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Command line access is simple:
Setup:
<pre>
cobbler import --name=RHEL5 --mirror=/mnt/dvd
cobbler import --name=Fedora --path=rsync://foo
</pre>
Create and edit distros:
<pre>
cobbler distro edit --name=RHEL5-i386 --kopts="noapic x=y z=4"
</pre>
Define some roles for your systems to fill:
<pre>
cobbler profile edit --name=RHEL5-i386 --kickstart=/path/to/template.ks --ksmeta="somevar=1 othervar=2"
cobbler profile copy --name=RHEL5-i386 --newname=webservers
cobbler profile edit --name=webservers --virt-ram=2048
</pre>
Map hardware to those roles:
<pre>
cobbler system add --name=foosball --mac=AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF --profile=RHEL5-i386
cobbler system edit --name=foosball --ip=192.168.10.50 # DHCP reservations!
cobbler system edit --name=foosball --dns-name=foosball # DNS setup
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Reinstall systems you have defined:
<pre>
cobbler system edit --name=foosball --netboot-enabled=1
cobbler system reboot --name=foosball
</pre>
Also help manage updates as they relate to installation and post-installation:
<pre>
cobbler repo add --name=f10-updates --mirror=http://foo
cobbler reposync
cobbler profile edit --name=desktops --repos="f10-updates"
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Want to install a VM? Everything is easy, since it's centrally managed
<pre>
koan --list-profiles [--server=cobbler.example.org]
koan --virt --profile=foo [...]
koan --virt --system=bar [...]
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Reinstall a physical box?
<pre>
koan --replace-self --system=bar
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Users don't have to remember 15 different virt parameters!
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We have a Web UI...</br>
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For Developers:
<ul>
<li>Python API</li>
<li>XMLRPC API</li>
<li>Triggers system for hooking in with other software</li>
<li>User extensible authn/authz</li>
</ul>
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Release cycle:
<ul>
<li>Relatively fast moving due to lots of contributors</li>
<li>All code kept in git</li>
<li>Kernel versioning scheme, odd=development, even=stable</li>
<li>Current stable is 1.4.X</li>
<li>Stable dot releases on current branch as needed</li>
<li>New major releases every 2-3 months, ideally 1-2 months</li>
</ul>
Future roadmap and plans:
<ul>
<li>Better cross-distro support for non-homogenous environments</li>
<li>Keeping up with virtualization developments</li>
<li>Continual web app improvements</li>
<li>Integration with other config management systems?</li>
<li>All the great ideas people have shared in Trac.</li>
<li>World domination -- be THE go to install server for any OS</li>
</ul>
</div>
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Want to Learn More?
<ul>
<li>Lots of documentation: <A HREF="http://fedorahosted.org/cobbler">fedorahosted.org/cobbler</A></li>
<li>Active mailing list: <A HREF="https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler">mailing list</A></li>
<li>IRC channel: #cobbler, irc.freenode.net</li>
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