Re: Offline systems

From	Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Offline systems
Date	2020-09-21 08:50 +0200
Message-ID	<ARnO9-1dX-5@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
References	<AR9i9-108-11@gated-at.bofh.it> <AR9Bw-16o-13@gated-at.bofh.it> <AR9Lc-19L-11@gated-at.bofh.it> <ARanT-1Bs-5@gated-at.bofh.it> <ARmfp-tw-13@gated-at.bofh.it>
Organization	linux.* mail to news gateway

Show all headers | View raw

[Multipart message — attachments visible in raw view] - view raw

On Lu, 21 sep 20, 08:04:58, Peter wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> >These are up to 70
> > real, physical servers and not VMs? You might want to look at automated
> > ways to deploy and build that many servers.
> 
> All 70 will be physical. I think about making 1 single server then using
> hdclone or acronis to make copy of it to the rest. Then write a small bash
> script for the onsite tech to change IP. Better ideas ? :-)

There's also ssh keys, partition UUIDs and other things that should be 
changed and/or regenerated.

FAI[1] was explicitly designed for your use case.

To manage the servers after installation you might want something like 
puppet, ansible, chef, salt, etc.

[1] https://fai-project.org

Kind regards,
Andrei
-- 
http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser

Thread

Offline systems Peter <peter@aboutsupport.com> - 2020-09-20 16:50 +0200
  Re: Offline systems Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2020-09-20 17:10 +0200
  Re: Offline systems Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2020-09-20 17:10 +0200
    Re: Offline systems Peter <peter@aboutsupport.com> - 2020-09-20 17:50 +0200
      Re: Offline systems deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2020-09-21 00:50 +0200
  Re: Offline systems mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2020-09-20 17:20 +0200
    Re: Offline systems "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2020-09-20 17:40 +0200
      Re: Offline systems mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2020-09-20 17:50 +0200
        Re: Offline systems "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2020-09-20 18:10 +0200
        Re: Offline systems Andrew Cater <amacater@gmail.com> - 2020-09-20 18:30 +0200
          Re: Offline systems Peter <peter@aboutsupport.com> - 2020-09-21 07:10 +0200
            Re: Offline systems David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2020-09-21 07:20 +0200
            Re: Offline systems Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-09-21 08:50 +0200
            Re: Offline systems deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2020-09-21 12:10 +0200

csiph-web