An ansible playbook for installing cobbler on Centos7, complete with a vagrant VM setup to test.
Copyright (C) 2016 Mark Einon mark.einon@gmail.com
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Prerequisites:
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Host Linux OS (Fedora 23 used to create this system), with:
- ansible and vagrant packages installed
- VirtualBox installed
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Downloaded CentOS 7 'Everything' ISO. (https://www.centos.org/download/) available on the Host
To run:
- run ./setup.sh and follow the instructions at the end
- run ./install_test_distro.sh and follow the instructions at the end
To test the cobbler VM setup works:
- Create a new VirtualBox test VM with default disk size of 8GB
- Set the test VM to boot from the network (PXE boot)
- Set the test VM to use a network Host-only Adapter using the same vboxnet as the cobbler VM, this adapter should have the mac address 080027A2FB85
- Mount the CentOS-7 ISO used previosuly as a DVD device in the test VM
- Boot the test VM - it should PXE boot and install CentOS 7
- Once installed, close the VM and set to boot from Hard Drive before restarting
- Party