- How do you use
kickstart right now? What work flows do you have
around it? Do you generate kickstart files from some process?
Do you
store them in version control?
For our test / dev sandbox, PXE boot menu options that specify build
parameters via the ks=URI to a php script i.e. MACHINE_TYPE=vm,phy_hp,phy_ucs DISK_TYPE=flat,lvm
DISK_SIZE=sm,med,large….. sometimes one-off’s for specific
builds based on hostname via dhcp reserved ip address to be able to rebuild the
same box over and over again for testing…
* What do you do in your kickstart files? Do you have extensive %pre
and %post sections? If so, what kinds of things are you doing in them?
Are you doing anything that would be generally useful that I should be
doing for you? Do you ever use %traceback? Do you have unusual
stuff
going on in %packages?
Use %post to wget mgmt stuff - sudoers, ssh-keys, repo setup & security
validation & the like
* What can I do to make your life easier? What annoys you about
kickstart right now? What do you wish it did? What do you wish it
didn't do? Would making it more like a language be helpful? Would
making it easier to define site-specific commands be helpful?
I know this is all really vague stuff, but I am just starting out on
this project. I don't even really know where this is going to take me
yet.
I'd also like to emphasize that whatever I end up doing, I want to keep
compatibility with kickstart as it exists today. That's something I
take seriously in pykickstart.
