Hi Cobbler Developers,
At Eucalyptus, for running the development and test environment for
engineers, we have been using a custom-built self-provisioning system, via
PXEBOOT, to provision the machines around in our datacenter.
However, recently we have picked up Cobbler to handle the bare metal
provision tasks of the internal dev/test system. Then, came up with the
idea that we should integrate Cobbler into Eucalyptus to handle the bare
metal provisioning-related operations, thus giving a birth to "Metaleuca."
Metaleuca is a bare-metal provision management system that interacts with
open-source software Cobbler via EC2-like CLIs.
For those who are interested in more details of Metaleuca, feel free to
check out the blog below:
http://kyolee.com/2013/01/30/introducing-metaleuca/
The code of Metaleuca can be seen at:
https://github.com/eucalyptus/metaleuca
Metaleuca is still at its experimental/prototype stage, but your comments
and suggestions will be extremely valuable in setting the right direction
on this integration approach.
Thank you all!
Kyo
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Kyo Lee
Software Designer at Eucalyptus.
Twitter: @kyolee
