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We use ansible on bare metal (no VM) to manage about 200 servers in our basement. We use PXE booting to manage the images. We use a customized arch linux image
by kuon 5y ago
We use ansible on bare metal (no VM) to manage about 200 servers in our basement. We use PXE booting to manage the images. We use a customized arch linux image and we have a few scripts to select what feature we'd like. It's "old school" but it's been working fine for nearly 20 years (we used plain scripts before ansible, so we always used the "agentless" approach). Our networking stack uses OpenBSD.
- yabones 5y agoThat sounds really interesting. If you have a write-up about how it's built, the decisions that went into it, and the problems you've had to solve, I would absolutely read it!
- kuon 5y agoWe have no public writing, but that could be interesting.
- annoyingnoob 5y agoI've used pretty much the same model to easily manage hundreds of servers. PXE boot, install an image, run ansible scripts to configure the specifics.