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| <h1>What is FAI? Main Features</h1> | ||
| <ul> | ||
| <li> A tool for automated unattended installation. Lazy system administrators like it. | ||
| <li> Remote network installation of different Linux flavors | ||
| <li> Easy-to-use centralized management system for your Linux deployment. | ||
| <li> FAI profiles extend the FAI class concept | ||
| <li> FAI shows a curses based menu for selecting a profile | ||
| <li> It's fast. It only takes a few minutes for a complete installation. | ||
| <li> Scalable. FAI users manage their computer infrastructures starting | ||
| from a few computers up to several thousands of machines. | ||
| <li> Easy creation of customized Linux installation media like CD, DVD or USB stick | ||
| <li> Autodiscover of the FAI install server when doing a network installation | ||
| <li> Different hardware and different configuration requirements are easy to | ||
| establish using FAI. <br>You do not need to repeat information that is shared | ||
| among several machines. | ||
| <li> Using the FAI class concept, you can group a bunch of similar machines. | ||
| <li> Installation targets: desktops, servers, notebooks, Beowulf cluster, rendering or web server farm, Linux laboratory or classroom. | ||
| <li> Linux rollout, mass installation and automated server provisioning are additional topics of FAI. | ||
| <li> FAI is lightweight. No special daemons are running, no database setup | ||
| is needed.<br>It's architecture independent, since it consists | ||
| only of shell, Perl and Cfengine scripts. | ||
| <li> Besides initial installations, it is also used for daily maintenance. | ||
| <li> Creating customized chroot environments, also cross-architecture | ||
| for e.g. for embedded devices | ||
| <li> Building your own disk image for cloud instances, also cross-architecture | ||
| <li> Cloning machines using disk images is supported | ||
| <li> Also bare-metal provisioning and deploying virtual machines is supported | ||
| <li> Compared to tools like kickstart or cobbler for Red Hat, autoyast for SUSE or | ||
| Jumpstart for SUN Solaris, FAI is much more flexible.<br>You can tune every | ||
| small part of your configuration to your local needs using hooks. | ||
| <li> More technical information in the <a href=/poster>flyer and poster</a> | ||
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| <h4>What is FAI? Main Features</h4> | ||
| <ul> | ||
| <li> | ||
| <span class="valign-wrapper"> | ||
| <i class="material-icons">done</i> <span> | ||
| A tool for automated unattended installation. Lazy system administrators like it. | ||
| </li> | ||
| <li> | ||
| <span class="valign-wrapper"> | ||
| <i class="material-icons">done</i> <span> | ||
| Remote network installation of different Linux flavors</span></span> | ||
| </li> | ||
| <li> | ||
| <span class="valign-wrapper"> | ||
| <i class="material-icons">done</i> <span> | ||
| Easy-to-use centralized management system for your Linux deployment.</span></span> | ||
| </li> | ||
| <li> | ||
| <span class="valign-wrapper"> | ||
| <i class="material-icons">done</i> <span> | ||
| FAI profiles extend the FAI class concept</span></span> | ||
| </li> | ||
| <li> | ||
| <span class="valign-wrapper"> | ||
| <i class="material-icons">done</i> <span> | ||
| FAI shows a curses based menu for selecting a profile</span></span> | ||
| </li> | ||
| <li> | ||
| <span class="valign-wrapper"> | ||
| <i class="material-icons">done</i> <span> | ||
| It's fast. It only takes a few minutes for a complete installation.</span></span> | ||
| </li> | ||
| <li> | ||
| <span class="valign-wrapper"> | ||
| <i class="material-icons">done</i> <span> | ||
| Scalable. FAI users manage their computer infrastructures starting from a few computers up to several thousands of machines.</span></span> | ||
| </li> | ||
| <li> | ||
| <span class="valign-wrapper"> | ||
| <i class="material-icons">done</i> <span> | ||
| Easy creation of customized Linux installation media like CD, DVD or USB stick</span></span> | ||
| </li> | ||
| <li> | ||
| <span class="valign-wrapper"> | ||
| <i class="material-icons">done</i> <span> | ||
| Autodiscover of the FAI install server when doing a network installation</span></span> | ||
| </li> | ||
| <li> | ||
| <span class="valign-wrapper"> | ||
| <i class="material-icons">done</i> <span> | ||
| Different hardware and different configuration requirements are easy to establish using FAI. You do not need to repeat information that is shared among several machines.</span></span> | ||
| </li> | ||
| <li> | ||
| <span class="valign-wrapper"> | ||
| <i class="material-icons">done</i> <span> | ||
| Using the FAI class concept, you can group a bunch of similar machines.</span></span> | ||
| </li> | ||
| <li> | ||
| <span class="valign-wrapper"> | ||
| <i class="material-icons">done</i> <span> | ||
| Installation targets: desktops, servers, notebooks, Beowulf cluster, rendering or web server farm, Linux laboratory or classroom.</span></span> | ||
| </li> | ||
| <li> | ||
| <span class="valign-wrapper"> | ||
| <i class="material-icons">done</i> <span> | ||
| Linux rollout, mass installation and automated server provisioning are additional topics of FAI.</span></span> | ||
| </li> | ||
| <li> | ||
| <span class="valign-wrapper"> | ||
| <i class="material-icons">done</i> <span> | ||
| FAI is lightweight. No special daemons are running, no database setup is needed.<br>It's architecture independent, since it consists only of shell, Perl and Cfengine scripts.</span></span> | ||
| </li> | ||
| <li> | ||
| <span class="valign-wrapper"> | ||
| <i class="material-icons">done</i> <span> | ||
| Besides initial installations, it is also used for daily maintenance.</span></span> | ||
| </li> | ||
| <li> | ||
| <span class="valign-wrapper"> | ||
| <i class="material-icons">done</i> <span> | ||
| Creating customized chroot environments, also cross-architecture for e.g. for embedded devices</span></span> | ||
| </li> | ||
| <li> | ||
| <span class="valign-wrapper"> | ||
| <i class="material-icons">done</i> <span> | ||
| Building your own disk image for cloud instances, also cross-architecture</span></span> | ||
| </li> | ||
| <li> | ||
| <span class="valign-wrapper"> | ||
| <i class="material-icons">done</i> <span> | ||
| Cloning machines using disk images is supported</span></span> | ||
| </li> | ||
| <li> | ||
| <span class="valign-wrapper"> | ||
| <i class="material-icons">done</i> <span> | ||
| Also bare-metal provisioning and deploying virtual machines is supported</span></span> | ||
| </li> | ||
| <li> | ||
| <span class="valign-wrapper"> | ||
| <i class="material-icons">done</i> <span> | ||
| Compared to tools like kickstart or cobbler for Red Hat, autoyast for SUSE or Jumpstart for SUN Solaris, FAI is much more flexible.<br>You can tune every small part of your configuration to your local needs using hooks.</span></span> | ||
| </li> | ||
| <li> | ||
| <span class="valign-wrapper"> | ||
| <i class="material-icons">done</i> <span> | ||
| More technical information in the | ||
| <a href=/poster>flyer and poster</a></span></span> | ||
| </li> | ||
| </ul> | ||
| </div> | ||
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| <p> | ||
| <div class="row"> | ||
| <h4>Other projects using FAI</h4> | ||
| <ul> | ||
| <li> | ||
| <span class="valign-wrapper"> | ||
| <i class="material-icons">done</i> <span> | ||
| <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/DebianLAN">DebianLAN</a></span></span> | ||
| </li> | ||
| <li> | ||
| <span class="valign-wrapper"> | ||
| <i class="material-icons">done</i> <span> | ||
| <a href="http://openqrm.org/">OpenQRM</a></span></span> | ||
| </li> | ||
| <li> | ||
| <span class="valign-wrapper"> | ||
| <i class="material-icons">done</i> <span> | ||
| <a href="https://qlustar.com/">Qlustar</a>. The Qlustar Installer CD is a customized FAI-CD</span></span> | ||
| </li> | ||
| <li> | ||
| <span class="valign-wrapper"> | ||
| <i class="material-icons">done</i> <span> | ||
| <a href="https://www.fusiondirectory.org/">FusionDirectory</a> | ||
| is a fork of GOsa</span></span> | ||
| </li> | ||
| <li> | ||
| <span class="valign-wrapper"> | ||
| <i class="material-icons">done</i> <span> | ||
| <a href="https://oss.gonicus.de/labs/gosa/">GOsa</a></span></span> | ||
| </li> | ||
| </ul> | ||
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| <h1>Other projects using FAI</h1> | ||
| <ul> | ||
| <li> <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/DebianLAN">DebianLAN</a> | ||
| <li> <a href="http://openqrm.org/">OpenQRM</a> | ||
| <li> <a href="https://qlustar.com/">Qlustar</a>. The Qlustar Installer | ||
| CD is a customized FAI-CD | ||
| <li> <a href="https://www.fusiondirectory.org/">FusionDirectory</a> is | ||
| a fork of GOsa | ||
| <li> <a href="https://oss.gonicus.de/labs/gosa/">GOsa</a> | ||
| </ul> | ||
| <p> | ||
| <div class="row"> | ||
| <h4>FAI Installation Steps</h4> | ||
| <ul> | ||
| <li> | ||
| <span class="valign-wrapper"> | ||
| <i class="material-icons">arrow_forward</i> <span> | ||
| Network boot via PXE</span></span> | ||
| </li> | ||
| <li> | ||
| <span class="valign-wrapper"> | ||
| <i class="material-icons">arrow_forward</i> <span> | ||
| Receive configuration data via HTTP, NFS, svn or git</span></span> | ||
| </li> | ||
| <li> | ||
| <span class="valign-wrapper"> | ||
| <i class="material-icons">arrow_forward</i> <span> | ||
| Run scripts to determine FAI classes and variables</span></span> | ||
| </li> | ||
| <li> | ||
| <span class="valign-wrapper"> | ||
| <i class="material-icons">arrow_forward</i> <span> | ||
| Partition local hard disks and create RAID, LVM configuration and the file systems</span></span> | ||
| </li> | ||
| <li> | ||
| <span class="valign-wrapper"> | ||
| <i class="material-icons">arrow_forward</i> <span> | ||
| Install and configure software packages</span></span> | ||
| </li> | ||
| <li> | ||
| <span class="valign-wrapper"> | ||
| <i class="material-icons">arrow_forward</i> <span> | ||
| Customize OS and software to your local needs</span></span> | ||
| </li> | ||
| <li> | ||
| <span class="valign-wrapper"> | ||
| <i class="material-icons">arrow_forward</i> <span> | ||
| Reboot freshly installed machine</span></span> | ||
| </li> | ||
| <li> | ||
| <span class="valign-wrapper"> | ||
| <i class="material-icons">arrow_forward</i> <span> | ||
| All this can also be done via an unattended CD installation</span></span> | ||
| </li> | ||
| </ul> | ||
| </div> | ||
|
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| <h1>FAI Installation Steps</h1> | ||
| <UL> | ||
| <li> Network boot via PXE | ||
| <li> Receive configuration data via HTTP, NFS, svn or git | ||
| <li> Run scripts to determine FAI classes and variables | ||
| <li> Partition local hard disks and create RAID, LVM configuration and the file systems | ||
| <li> Install and configure software packages | ||
| <li> Customize OS and software to your local needs | ||
| <li> Reboot freshly installed machine | ||
| <li> All this can also be done via an unattended CD installation | ||
| </ul> | ||
| <div class="row"> | ||
| <h4>FAI History</h4> | ||
| FAI is rock-solid. It's now more than 16 years old. FAI was started in 1999 at the University of Cologne, when | ||
| <a href="https://cs.uni-koeln.de/ls-juenger/people/lange">Thomas</a> | ||
| had to organize an installation of a Linux cluster. Today, FAI is regularly used in | ||
| <a href="/reports/">varying environments</a>, ranging from a dozen machines up to several thousands machines. | ||
| </div> | ||
| </div> | ||
| </main> | ||
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| <h1>FAI History</h1> | ||
| FAI is rock-solid. It's now more than 16 years old. FAI was started in 1999 at | ||
| the University of Cologne, when | ||
| <a href="https://cs.uni-koeln.de/ls-juenger/people/lange">Thomas</a> had to | ||
| organize an installation of a Linux cluster. Today, FAI is regularly used in <a href="/reports/">varying environments</a>, | ||
| ranging from a dozen machines up to several thousands machines. | ||
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