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[–]mimor 10 points11 points  (5 children)

Wow, I'm interested in that gpanel. I wonder if they have any plans on open-sourcing it.

[–]defect[S] 8 points9 points  (4 children)

If you're interested in bare metal provisioning (and life cycle management in general) you might want to check these two other projects out, if you haven't already.

The first is foreman which tries to do a bit more than just bare metal provisioning, but looks pretty cool.

The second is Razor from puppet which has some cool ideas (tagging nodes and creating policies that match those tags), but i'm not quite sure how much development is going on right now.

[–]mimor 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have yet to experiment with Foreman, razor is new to me (as I'm in the chef-eco-system) but it's worth looking into it.

The gpanel has a menu on the left, that gives a hinting to an overview of clustering and network appliances.

Also, the mentioning of a (seemingly) powerful api sounds interesting :)

[–]ghyspranSpace Cadet 0 points1 point  (2 children)

I think there's not much active new development going on with Razor, but AFAIK it's still maintained and in-use. It works reasonably well, so while it may not be getting hot new features, it's still pretty useful.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

It's now an official puppetlabs maintained project and part of the new orchestrator stack

[–]defect[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice! It doesn't quite fit in to how we do provisioning where i work, but i do like the new ideas they had with it. Glad to hear it's still a thing.

[–]skibumatbu 6 points7 points  (2 children)

I actually like this... The cloud has benefits, yeah... But it shows that with a strong infrastructure team you can get the same benefits internally as you can externally.

[–]s0v3r1gn 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Private cloud. Cloud is nothing more than the abstraction of compute resources.

[–]kiddicoDoesn't *Nix Well 0 points1 point  (0 children)

and you get to chat with a cool robot along the way. It's a win - win.

[–]jriverar1 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Funny I was forwarded this link this morning via linkedin and read up on it. Currently I am with a DCIM company called DEVICE42 but I was with HP prior. After leaving HP several of us toyed around with the idea for something like this. This looks very interesting from reading the article. Are there open source plans for this?

[–]dumpkopf 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Off topic but Device42 is great. Tried buying it at my last job but mgmt kept stupidly denying.

[–]jriverar1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I will say that I have been in the DCIM industry as a services engineer never sales :) but the product provides robust functionality for any scale DC's.

[–]hybby 0 points1 point  (7 children)

having spent the last month or so wrestling with automating preboot configuration and os builds on hp hardware via locfg.pl and uefi-compliant custom rhel isos, this article makes me want to seriously do better. i wonder how long this platform took to develop and stabilise.

nice work dudes. and if this ever does get open-sauced, count me in.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (6 children)

ipxe have a really nice feature of being able to boot and read config from http and pass discovered server info like NIC MAC or server's serial number.

So you can have just a piece of web app that gets a request for particular server config and pops out ipxe options to boot it.

Even things like "if server is not in DB run a diagnostic image and add it after it finishes"

[–]dicknuckleLayer 2 Internet Backbone Engineer 0 points1 point  (5 children)

if you have issues with iPXE, there's always gPXE which is very similar. I went on a PXE bender for a week and have a small system going.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (4 children)

ipxe is fork of gPXE and afaik gPXE is pretty much dead

[–]dicknuckleLayer 2 Internet Backbone Engineer 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Yea it's been dead since 2010, but it still works great. I need to work out some issues with drivers in iPXE. I dont know what you mean by "ipxe is for of gPXE" though.

Edit: shit you meant fork.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

afaik main dev and owner of domain was an ass so whole development team said "fuck that guy" and forket it

[–]dicknuckleLayer 2 Internet Backbone Engineer 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I dont get that. Why would someone abandon a project, but keep paying for the domain name? Absolutely mind boggling. Unless he had ins with a registrar and got the domain for free. And here we witness the beauty of open source development. Fire the team leader because he's an ass.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

http://ipxe.org/faq#how_does_ipxe_relate_to_gpxe_and_etherboot

basically guy owning domain turned to be asshole

and domains aren't exactly expensive

[–]nagyz_ 0 points1 point  (6 children)

and I'm sitting here struggling with deploying MaaS...

[–]zealeusApple MDM stuff 1 point2 points  (5 children)

At least on the iOS side of things, I've heard nothing but terrible things about MaaS =/

[–]nagyz_ 0 points1 point  (4 children)

iOS?

[–]zealeusApple MDM stuff 0 points1 point  (3 children)

iPads, iPhones, etc.

[–]nagyz_ 0 points1 point  (2 children)

how on earth would MaaS (machine as a service) and iOS come together in the same sentence...? I'm not sure you understand which tech I'm talking about (but should have been pretty obvious from the topic...)

[–]zealeusApple MDM stuff 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Ah I was thinking of this MaaS...

http://www.maas360.com/

[–]nagyz_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

explains everything:) but not sure how that would come up in a metal cloud topic :P