[et-mgmt-tools] Where does cobbler and koan end .. and stateless linux starts ?

[Michael DeHaan]

Vikas wrote:
> I started looking at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/StatelessLinux and
> from there got introduced to cobbler and koan (Great work Michael !!)
>
> These are the 4 objectives I am trying to achieve:
>
> A. Prepare a gold copy of the server. This involves:
> 1. installing RHEL5 on it
> 2. Add other RPM's like webmin and virtualmin.
> 3. Move the config files like httpd.conf etc. to a location called
> /gt/fsrvx/server-config/. Here x is that servers number. For e.g the
> first server will have /gt/fsrv1/ 2nd server will have /gt/fsrv2/ and
> so on. Here /gt/ is a separate partition.
>
> B. Be able to push the gold copy out to servers fresh from UPS using
> PXE and cobbler and once the server has a base OS on it be able to add
> more virtual operating systems to it using koan and cobbler.
>
> C. Each of the deployed servers should contact the central gold copy
> and see if there have been any changes to the / partition and if so
> then rsync over the changes. This is the stateless part of each of the
> servers.
>
> D. Any changes to the /gt/ partition should be sent over to the backup
> server. This is the state part of each of the servers.
>
> My two questions are:
> 1. Will the kickstart file allow me to move the config files like
> httpd.conf over to /gt/fsrv1/server-config/httpd.conf. I can possibly
> do this by modifying the default apache RPM but will I be able to say
> /gt/fsrv?/server-config/http.conf and replace the ? with the current
> server number getting installed.

Kickstart by itself, no... This would be a good question for 
stateless-list ...
http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/stateless-list

>
> 2. Will I be able to achieve the objectives B and C.

B)  yes, absolutely.
C)  this is not something cobbler would do, but cobbler doesn't prevent 
you from doing that.

>
> Regards,
>
> -----
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> Vikas
> vikas at mortgagefit dot com
>
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