<html><head></head><body>Also look at xcat. I'm looking at it to replace home-grown pile of kickstart and shell scripts for HPC but it looks like it's general purpose scale-out deployment. It supports Ubuntu as a deployable OS.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On April 29, 2021 9:35:24 AM EDT, Tod Fassl via Ale <ale@ale.org> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">My boss asked me to look into alternatives to FAI, Fully Automatic <br>Installs. We are not at all unhappy with FAI. It's just that I am <br>retiring soon and they don't know if they are going to be able to <br>replace me. FAI depends heavily upon scripting and it is not clear that <br>my employer will be able to hire a programmer. We have about a hundred <br>Linux desktops to update every 6 months.<br><br><br>Does anybody use something other than FAI for Debian/Ubuntu installs? I <br>already googled it and it doesn't look like there is anything else. I <br>thought I'd ask here just to make sure I've done all I can. The Debian <br>wiki lists just the Debian installer itself, FAI, and some stuff for Red <br>Hat.<br><br><br>PS: I told my boss they are going to have to find another disabled <br>person to take my place. I was only half joking. They'll never be able <br>to find a normal person to do my job at what they are paying me. Maybe <br>they can find somebody with a felony record or something.<br><br><br>###<br><br>Tod<hr>Ale mailing list<br>Ale@ale.org<br><a href="https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale">https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</a><br>See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at<br><a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo</a><br></pre></blockquote></div><br>-- <br>Computers amplify human error<br>Super computers are really cool</body></html>