Michael DeHaan wrote:
So there's been a lot of interest around having Cobbler read LDAP recently, and possibly I'm guessing it would be useful to have it /write/ to LDAP. I know several folks already have their own scripts to interface between the two.
This would be a *huge* win for my environment, and I'm sure for other folks dealing with more than a handful of machines. As far as writing to LDAP, while it may be nice in some circumstances - generating config files alone would be excellent.
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Most likely what would happen is I'll implement the framework for allowing arbitrary formats with a sqlite prototype, and if someone else wants to add in LDAP later that would be pretty easy to do by following the sqlite module's lead.
SQL support would be interesting - assuming that most people store their machine inventory in some soft of RDBMS - but for my use I think having LDAP support will scale better to multiple facilities. Enterprise LDAP implementations are generally designed with replication in mind (be it for a local LDAP cluster or to replicate a LDAP domain across multiple sites) - replicating a SQL DB seems like excessive baggage, especially if you are hoping to use cobbler/koan to manage multiple sites and datacenters.
The other thing on the radar is finally making the XMLRPC API bi-directional (by adding an additional secure version on another port) to make the life of webapps using the Cobbler API easier. I've been meaning to do that for a while. Until then apps that need write access to cobbler configs can go through the python API and/or the YAML tree.
nice!! <snip>
Comments? Questions? Ideas?
thanks for all the hard work you've done with cobbler/koan - it's literally shaved several weeks of engineering time for a project I am working on!
I wish I had more time to help out getting these features added to cobbler, unfortunately that is unlikely for the foreseeable future. I can offer testing, debugging help and as usual my two bit's :)
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