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Brief introduction

Cobbler is a free open source system installation and deployment software, which is used to automate the network installation operating system; based on Python development, it is the secondary packaging of PXE, providing the management form of CLI and Web, as well as API interface, which is convenient for secondary development.

It can not only install physical machines, but also support virtualization and GuestOS installation. In addition, Cobbler can also be combined with Puppet and other centralized management software to achieve automatic management.

Relationship between components of Cobbler:

Installation process:

Install Cobbler:

Cobbler is provided by epel source, so you need to configure yum source pointing to epel in advance. Cobbler will install dependent services together, such as tftp-server, httpd;, dncp, rsync and so on.

[root@node0 ~] # yum install cobbler pykickstart debmirror dhcp rsync cman fence-agents [root@node0 ~] # service httpd start [root@node0 ~] # chkconfig tftp on [root@node0 ~] # chkconfig rsync on

Configure Cobbler:

[root@node0 ~] # vim / etc/cobbler/settings

Server: 192.168.1.4

Next_server: 192.168.1.4

[root@node0 ~] # cobbler get-loaders

[root@node0 ~] # vim / etc/debmirror.conf

# @ dists= "sid"

# @ arches= "i386"

[root@node0 ~] # openssl passwd-1-salt `openssl rand-hex 4`

$1 $ca6a7d72 $KDte4ZK00OCLiK4PLE4tp0

[root@node0 ~] # vim / etc/cobbler/settings

Default_password_crypted: "$1 $ca6a7d72 $KDte4ZK00OCLiK4PLE4tp0"

[root@node0 ~] # service cobblerd start

[root@node0 ~] # chkconfig cobblerd on

[root@node0 ~] # cobbler sync

Configure DHCP:

[root@node0 ~] # cp/ usr/share/doc/dhcp-4.1.1/dhcpd.conf.sample / etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf [root@node0 ~] # vim / etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf subnet 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {range 192.168.1.1 192.168.1.100; option routers 192.168.1.1; next-server 192.168.1.4; filename "pxelinux.0" } [root@node0 ~] # service dhcpd start [root@node0 ~] # chkconfig dhcpd on

Add distro: Mount the image and add it to cobbler

[root@node0] # mount / mnt/hgfs/lin/CentOS-6.7-x86_64-bin-DVD1.iso / mnt/cdrom/ [root@node0 ~] # cobbler import-- name=CentOS-6.7-x86_64-- path=/mnt/cdrom/-- kickstart=/root/anaconda-ks.cfg task started: 2016-03-08_203724_import task started (id=Media import, time=Tue Mar 8 20:37:24 2016) Found a candidate signature: breed=redhat, version=rhel6 Found a matching signature: breed=redhat Version=rhel6 Adding distros from path / var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/CentOS-6.7-x86_64: skipping import, as distro name already exists: CentOS-6.7-x86_64 No distros imported, bailing out! TASK FAILED!

View the current distro:

Root@node0 ~] # cobbler distro list CentOS-6.7-x86_64

Test the installation:

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