[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Common infrastructure for pxe-bootmenus with syslinux?

[Jesse Nelson < >]

Maybe the best thing would be for the pxe cook I pushed yesterday to end up 
as a pure library cook and a release on community as pxe_menu. Then people 
can use whatever they want for handling clients and Matt can use it in 
pxe_dust. Instead of tftp_dir and a dep on tftp cook I can use a pxe or 
syslinux  attribute namespace for where to generate menu entries.  

Matt if u look at the precise.rb examples in the cook I uploaded it is setup 
to generate entries for hosts from dhcp bags.  I wrote all of his almost 2 
years ago, and I was integrating pxe with my dhcp and bind cooks. What I 
uploaded yesterday was a quick hack to make it as much a library cook as I 
could.  I think that's the right way for this moving forward (vs directly 
dropping the LWRP in pxe_dust )   

All of this started out as pxe_dust. But I needed xenserver and rhel support. 
 This is what I ended up with.

- Jesse 

> On Oct 9, 2013, at 12:47 PM, Matt Ray 
> <
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>  wrote:
> 
> I'll definitely take a look at it. I've got a 2.0 branch of pxe_dust
> that replaces tftp with dnsmasq and adds a handful of other small
> features. I was talking about adding a boot menu to allow you to
> select PXE OS installation or to boot the hard drive (the default),
> this would tie in well. Not sure when I'll have time for it, but I'd
> take the patches.
> https://github.com/mattray/pxe_dust-cookbook/tree/2.0
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Matt Ray
> Cloud Integrations Product Lead :: Opscode
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>> On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 1:38 PM, Jesse Nelson 
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>>  wrote:
>> I'll merge pr's and perform basic maintenance just wanted to get the stuff 
>> I had out there for others to use. If you want to run with it or Matt 
>> wants to that's great.
>> 
>> There lwrp itself might benefit from some love as it's pre chef 11 and I 
>> was using an experiment in nested resource notification.
>> 
>> -Jesse
>> 
>> 
>>> On Oct 9, 2013, at 1:51 AM, Arnold Krille 
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>>>  wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> Am Tue, 8 Oct 2013 19:23:03 -0700 schrieb Jesse Nelson
>>> <
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>>>> I moved the integrated / recipe bits to the examples directory and
>>>> pushed this code up. This cook has been running in production for
>>>> some time. Feel free to build on it, and if someone wants to take it
>>>> over I am happy to give it to ya.
>>>> 
>>>> https://github.com/spheromak/pxe-cookbook
>>> 
>>> I like that! Thanks!
>>> 
>>> There are a few nitpicking things:
>>> - current tftp cookbook has the tftp-directory in
>>>  node[:tftp][:directory] instead of node[:tftp][:dir]
>>> - It should be configurable what the global default on timeout is and
>>>  if there is a timeout at all.
>>> 
>>> Do you want pull-request for your repository or should I wait until
>>> Matt Ray picks it up?
>>> 
>>> Have fun,
>>> 
>>> Arnold