Installs and configures a tftpd server for serving Ubuntu installers over PXE and setting them to run a provided preseed.cfg.
Written and tested with Chef 0.9.14 and Ubuntu 10.10.
Attributes under the pxe_dust
namespace.
["pxe_dust"]["arch"]
- Architecture of the netboot.tar.gz to use as the source of pxeboot images.["pxe_dust"]["tftpboot"]
- Path of the tftpboot directory used for sharing images.["pxe_dust"]["version"]
- Ubuntu version of the netboot.tar.gz to use as the source of pxeboot images.["pxe_dust"]["user"]["fullname"]
- Full name of the default user, default "Ubuntu".["pxe_dust"]["user"]["username"]
- Username of the default user, default "ubuntu".["pxe_dust"]["user"]["crypted_password"]
- SHA512 password for the default user, default nil. This must be generated and added as an attribute or you won't be able to login.
Sets the boot prompt to automatically run the installer.
Sets the URL to the preseed file.
The preseed file is full of opinions, you will want to update this. If there is a node providing an apt-cacher proxy via the [apt::cacher]
recipe, it is provided in the preseed.cfg.
The default recipe passes through to pxe_dust::server
.
The server includes the apache2
recipe and installs the tftpd-hpa
package.
The recipe does the following:
- Downloads the proper netboot.tar.gz to boot from.
- Untars it to the tftpboot directory.
- Instructs the installer prompt to automatically install.
- Passes the URL of the preseed.cfg to the installer.
- Uses the preseed.cfg template to pass in any
apt-cacher
proxies.
Create a role, pxe_server
.
name "pxe_server"
description "PXE Dust Boot Server"
run_list("recipe[pxe_dust::server]")
default_attributes(
"pxe_dust" => {
"user" => {
"username" => "ubuntu",
"fullname" => "Ubuntu",
"crypted_password" => "$6$Trby4Y5R$bi90k7uYY5ImXe5MWGFW9kel2BnMCcYO9EnwngTFIXKG2/nWcLKTJZ3verMFnpFbITI9.eHwZ.HR1UPeKbCAV1"
)
On an Ubuntu system, the password can be generated by installing the mkpasswd
package and running:
mkpasswd -m sha-512
The example above is the hash of the password ubuntu
, if you'd like to test. This attribute must be set to a valid sha-512 hash of the password or you will not be able to log in.
This cookbook does not provide DHCP or bootp to listen for PXE boot requests, this URL will have to be provided by another cookbook or manually. The author had to do this manually on a DD-WRT router.
Side note, for DD-WRT bootp support this forum post was followed. The key syntax was
dhcp-boot=pxelinux.0,,192.168.1.147
in the section Additional DNSMasq Options
where the IP address is that of the tftpd server we're configuring here and pxelinux.0 is from the netboot tarball.
Author:: Matt Ray matt@opscode.com Author:: Joshua Timberman joshua@opscode.com
Copyright:: 2011 Opscode, Inc
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