kickstart Cookbook

Creates an apache vhost and serves a very basic kickstart file.

Requirements

Platforms

• RHEL/CentOS/Scientific/Amazon/Oracle

Chef

• Chef 11+

Cookbooks

• apache2

Attributes

• kickstart['rootpw'] - set the root password. Use an encrypted string[1].
• kickstart['virtual_host_name'] - set the ServerName for apache2 vhost.
• kickstart['mirror_url'] - set the full URL to the "CentOS" directory w/ the rpms to install.

Ruby way to encrypt

Usage

You'll almost certainly want to edit ks.cfg.erb to suit your environment. As is, the provided template is used as a minimal fast install for creating virtual machines to run CentOS 5. Of particular note, the following should definitely be changed:

• url - mirrors.kernel.org is usually fast for me, but maybe not for you.
• network - change the hostname.
• rootpw - this is an attribute, so you can change it by modifying the server. Use the encrypted password!

Storage / disks should probably be customized, as well as firewall rules, SELinux policy, and the package list.

The %post section will install Chef via Matthew Kent's RPMs, per the Chef Wiki instructions.

To use the recipe on a system that will be the kickstart server,

include_recipe "kickstart::server"

License & Authors

Author: Cookbook Engineering Team (cookbooks@chef.io)

Copyright: 2009-2015, Chef Software, Inc.
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