Feature #378: Multiple Kickstart Files/Profiles - Foreman

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Feature #378

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Multiple Kickstart Files/Profiles

Added by Jon Fautley over 14 years ago. Updated about 14 years ago.

Status:

Closed

Priority:

Normal

Assignee:

Ohad Levy

Category:

Unattended installations

Target version:

0.2

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Description

It would be exceptionally useful to have the ability to tie a specific kickstart file to an individual host group.

We deploy a variety of systems based on RHEL and CentOS, and have to have different kickstarts for each, for example for additional repos required for Cobbler installations vs. RHEL installations.

This is also useful where we have 'dev' systems which have a much larger package set than 'prod' systems. Managing this sort of thing through kickstart is significantly faster/easier than doing the same through Puppet. (cf. Puppet RFEs/bugs with the speed of the Yum package provider).

(This RFE was raised after speaking with Ohad on IRC, let me know if you'd like any further details/justification)

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Updated by Ohad Levy over 14 years ago

would you like the ks files to be as simple files (some where on the file system) or rather editable via the gui?

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Updated by Ohad Levy over 14 years ago

Target version set to 0.2

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Updated by Ohad Levy over 14 years ago

ok, my thoughts on this one for now.

Each host group can be associated with a kickstart template
New templates can be added into the database, not the file system.
Each template needs to be associated with a os family (e.g. a template can work for both Fedora and RedHat)
The default kickstart view will be rendered only if no other kickstarts are associated with the system.

open questions

can individual hosts be associated with a kickstart template as well (e.g. from a drop down), imho its missing the whole point.. but ymmv.
how much of an editor do we need to put it (syntax highlight, ks validation etc)
how do we migrate from the existing setup to the new layout?

Best if we chat about this over irc?

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