Re: Bug#756521: ITP: kadeploy -- Scalable, efficient and reliable cluster provisioning solution
On 02/08/14 at 09:51 +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 10:31 PM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
>
> > FAI and Kickstart rely on an installation process (even if not
> > debian-installer's): packages are extracted, installed and configured.
> > Kadeploy and CloneZilla rely on cloning: you install and configure one
> > system first, then create an image from it, and copy this image to the
> > other systems.
>
> One downside of cloning Debian based images is that debootstrap, dpkg
> and package maintainer scripts leave system-specific files (like
> openssh private keys, systemd machine ids, dbus machine ids etc) in
> the resulting image and you have to workaround that after generating
> the image.
>
> How does Kadeploy currently deal with this sort of issue?
There's a post-installation phase where machine-specific files are
copied to the cloned system.
> Perhaps we need to merge the Debian cloud/live team's handling of this
> issue and put that in a package that Kadeploy can use...
Yes, or at least the Kadeploy developers should take a look at what is
done there, to make sure that the same things are covered on both sides.
Lucas
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