kickstart

Kickstart

Set up a Linux host to serve PXE/TFTP and Kickstart files.

This is all very simplistic – for example, we install the httpd package but do nothing with the config. In the real world httpd would be a separate install, and hopefully a proper configuration. But, out of the box, to demonstrate principles here, it works just fine. YMMV.

Requirements

Role Variables

defaults/main.yml

kickstart_pkgs: 
  - tftp-server
  - syslinux-tftpboot
  - createrepo
  - httpd
kickstart_tftpdir: /tftpboot

You'll want to tailor kickstart_server

Dependencies

Example Playbook

- hosts: servers
  roles:
     - { role: kickstart, kickstart_server: kickstart.lan }

License

BSD

Author Information

Mark Phillips mark@probably.co.uk