Re: anyone interested in cobbler?
On 14 February 2014 18:57, Clint Byrum <spamaps@debian.org> wrote:
> Excerpts from Timo Aaltonen's message of 2014-02-14 05:49:38 -0800:
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> I've put cobbler packaging to collab-maint/cobbler.git, which is based
>> on the original ubuntu package but has been cleaned up for the most
>> part. Some ubuntuisms still remain, and some patches need to be sent
>> upstream for merging.
>>
>> But it doesn't have an ITP yet, since I'm not sure if it'll be useful
>> for my environment in the long run. So if someone wants to pick it up
>> please let me know. I'm willing to at least co-maintain it for the time
>> being, but it needs a sponsor once the packaging is considered ready.
>>
>
> I think if you've already deployed Cobbler, it might be useful to keep
> it maintained. Upstream is BARELY active AFAIK.
>
> But there are many more modern alternatives.
>
> I am partial to OpenStack, which I'm working on for my paid job.
> OpenStack's compute service, nova, can be configured to do basically
> all the stuff Cobbler does using the baremetal driver. It is already
> available in Debian (thanks zigo!)
>
> Also Ironic will do even more and is about to graduate to a fully
> integrated project in OpenStack.
>
> Also Canonical was pushing Cobbler but then dropped it largely
> because MaaS (Metal as a Service) exists and is a better more modern
> implementation as well.
>
> So, if you need an API for hardware management, I think Cobbler is a
> fairly poor choice at this point.
>
Whilst I agree with the sentiment and the direction, I think it is
unfair to suggest upstream is dead... when there are commits most
days[0].
To expand on the why this was Ubuntu native and never made it into
Debian until now.. this is largely because there was only ever intent
to maintain a subset of the project for a small period, and there
wasn't a strong volunteer to maintain the whole package in Debian.
That said, it's still a perfectly cromulent project and suitable for
small scale deployments.. Not sure I have complete confidence in it's
security model.
[0] https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/commits/master
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Kind Regards,
Dave Walker
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