contegix / cobbler_master-cookbook

A cookbook for setting up a Cobbler server on Ubuntu

cobbler_master

A cookbook for creating a Cobbler master server and setting up repos

Requirements

apt cookbook

Only tested on Ubuntu 12.04

Usage

Nothing special - set up the attributes to your liking and go to town!

Bonus: virtualboxes all the way down

The cookbook is set up with a Vagrantfile which, in conjunction with vagrant berkshelf plugin, makes it trivial to create a vagrant provisioned with these recipes.

Once the cobbler_master vagrant is up and running, create another virtualbox with a network adapter set to the same Host-only network Vagrant uses (on my machine this is vboxnet0 with the 33.33.33.0 subnet).

When your new virutalbox boots, it should get a 33.33.33.xxx IP via DHCP and pxeboot to a menu of Cobbler profiles (if you provision with the ubuntu-precise recipe, which is the default in the Vagrantfile, an option to install ubuntu 12.04 will already be there)

The nicest part is that this cookbook sets cobbler up to act as a mirror (on your local, host-only network), so the installation when pxebooting is very fast.

Attributes

The attributes file contains attributes used to set up DHCP. You should see how they're used in templates/default/dhcp.template.erb. Explaining these variables is beyond the scope of this README, but they are basic DHCP configuration values.

Recipes

• default - install and configure a cobbler server
• ubuntu-precise - add a profile and http mirror for installing Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Author

Author:: Mikhail Panchenko [email protected]