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notyourday

I'm not following, sorry.

This is cattle:

* PXE boot server(s)

* Image contains masterless puppet bootstrap.

* Server(s) asks git - "give me the bootstrap for my mac address"

* Server(s) gets a list of classes to apply.

* Server(s) applies classes.

Done.

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What kind of software do you use to configure PXE servers? Or is there anything else that I'm missing?

I'm looking for a solution to make unattend installation possible.

Edit: Can use Ansible to make a PXE server. (Egg or chicken thing)

There's a single pxeboot server that bootstraps everything. It sends back a single image common among all baremetal servers regardless of what asks for it. The actual configuration is done via a git repo that contains a mapping between mac address of a server and puppet classes.

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