Hi Cobbler folks,
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:
The code of Metaleuca can be seen at:
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