From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 12 20:12:00 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EC841DD3; Mon, 12 Jan 2015 20:12:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from d.mail.sonic.net (d.mail.sonic.net [64.142.111.50]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B85F674C; Mon, 12 Jan 2015 20:12:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from aurora.physics.berkeley.edu (aurora.Physics.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.117.67]) (authenticated bits=0) by d.mail.sonic.net (8.14.9/8.14.9) with ESMTP id t0CKBqd3020395 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Mon, 12 Jan 2015 12:11:52 -0800 Message-ID: <54B42A88.1020800@freebsd.org> Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 12:11:52 -0800 From: Nathan Whitehorn User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Craig Rodrigues , freebsd-current Current Subject: Re: Devops question: unattended installs of FreeBSD? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Sonic-CAuth: UmFuZG9tSVbICkfX9iw+EcJ5Mx6H4SFDwDBaMZLan53Mf19ztPWW9/wW/dk8fgRVslxsdIeTiP6DbEOy4bNPIPqDUPWlXJsI2TjD3qVQcmw= X-Sonic-ID: C;ZH2AP5ea5BGp19mh1eMT4g== M;ShbZP5ea5BGp19mh1eMT4g== X-Spam-Flag: No X-Sonic-Spam-Details: 0.0/5.0 by cerberusd X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 20:12:01 -0000 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" >