Using Ansible for bare metal installation for linux, windows and esx

Dinil T

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Apr 19, 2017, 3:25:57 PM4/19/17

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Hi Team,

Curious to know if Ansible can do bare metal installation from scratch by integrating with PXE. The requirement is to install Linux, Windows and VMware from scratch.

What I am aiming is to do remote installation for RHEL/SLES/Windows/ESX like the way their native installation techniques of kickstart,… ie, Single approach for remote installation via Ansible.

Any inputs are appreciated.

Thanks,

Dinil

Benjamin Redling

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Apr 20, 2017, 12:36:12 PM4/20/17

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Hi Dinil,

On 2017-04-18 09:09, Dinil T wrote:
> What I am aiming is to do remote installation for RHEL/SLES/Windows/ESX
> like the way their native installation techniques of kickstart,… ie,
> Single approach for remote installation via Ansible.

IMO ansible is not made for (bare metal) provisioning.

Use anything (Kickstart, preseed, FAI, MAAS, razor, xCat, Cobbler, opsi,
LTI/ZTI...) that brings you to the point where you can use ansible (most
often: a running SSH server).

Regards,
Benjamin
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Bernard Landon

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Apr 21, 2017, 8:37:13 AM4/21/17

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Just for you information, I use the Foreman do do bare metal provisioning. With Ansible on top, it's a pretty nice setup.

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