[chef] Baremetal Provisioning

[Phillip Roberts < >]

Does anyone have any good links or pointers to bare metal provisioning? I have done plenty of cloud based chef stuff, however, we want to now start managing all of our physical servers with chef as well. I am trying to replace as much of our build system as possible (ad hoc bash / perl scripts) for this provisioning. So I am looking for a good way to do this, I understand chef is not a PXE server, but just how far back in the tool chain can I go?

 

My thoughts are serving up a kickstart file (since we are a RHEL / Cent based shop) that builds just enough of the OS in order to hand off to chef.

 

Anyway, any pointers, or past presentations / links would be much appreciated.

 

 

Thanks,

 

Phillip Roberts | Sr. Linux Administrator

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