Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 12:11:52 -0800 From: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> To: Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Devops question: unattended installs of FreeBSD? Message-ID: <54B42A88.1020800@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <CAG=rPVfkHND3djpTDZBWzTs5u%2BNd-ijT_3ZvgYK859LHqkv6BQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAG=rPVfkHND3djpTDZBWzTs5u%2BNd-ijT_3ZvgYK859LHqkv6BQ@mail.gmail.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On 01/12/15 11:24, Craig Rodrigues wrote: > Hi, > > I had a devops person who is familiar with setting up hundreds of > Linux nodes in cloud environment ask me what is the best way > to do unattended installs in a cloud environment. > Linux has kickstart installs, which are quite useful and popular. > > What is the equivalent in FreeBSD? > > In the sysinstall days, the sysinstall.cfg config file could be created > which drove large parts of the installer. Now that sysinstall is gone, > what is the alternative? Searching the web, I found two answers: > > (1) Write your own script > (2) Use pc-sysinstall from the PC-BSD project > http://wiki.pcbsd.org/index.php/Creating_an_Automated_Installation_with_pc-sysinstall/10.0/en (3) Please see "SCRIPTING" in bsdinstall(8). Let me know if you have any trouble with it. -Nathan > I am trying to work with a devops team who is very experienced > with setting up Linux environments in the cloud. Based on the available > docs, > it is not clear to non-FreeBSD experts how to accomplish similar things > with FreeBSD. > > By the way, I would be very interested in hearing from people who have > experience > in installing, configuring, and upgrading hundreds or even thousands of > FreeBSD > nodes in devops and cloud environments. For people who are not FreeBSD > experts, > but who are Linux devops experts, is it easy to do, or is there a lot of > custom scripts which need to be written? > > Thanks. > -- > Craig > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?54B42A88.1020800>