In my previous blog post about server provisioning automation, I described our pre-provisioning phase and how we automated the out-of-band interface configuration and make machines remotely accessible and ready to kickstart. In this installment, I go through the provisioning phase and show how we use Puppet to automatically kickstart physical machines. The Challenge In the […]
Topic: DevOps
Server Provisioning Automation – Part 1
December 6, 2012 by 4 Comments
In the next few blog posts I’ll describe how we automated several parts of our server provisioning process. In this first blog post of the series I cover the pre-provisioning phase, in which servers are prepared so that they can be remotely accessed and kickstarted. Next, I’ll illustrate the provisioning phase and show how we […]