Provisioning Ubuntu Autoinstall

[mcorr]

Foreman supports provisioning hosts running Debian and Ubuntu on VMware, Proxmox, cloud providers such as Microsoft Azure, and bare metal hosts. With the Katello plug-in, provisioned and registered hosts receive versioned DEB content based on their lifecycle. This blog article is a short summary of what happened behind the scenes to provisioning hosts running Ubuntu 20.04.3+, why you need new templates, and how to use the new deployment mechanism.

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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://theforeman.org/2024/02/provisioning-ubuntu-autoinstall.html

[mevosa]

Thanks for the post, having followed along the steps listed on the blog, i am stuck at the PXE installation.

Apologies for the document uploaded, it only allowed me to upload one document, hence combined all the screenshots in one file.

The Virtual Machine issues a error -

error: invalid magic number.
error: you need to load the kernal first

[dmgeurts]

Thank you for a very heklpful article! However, it doesn’t detail how the Subscription agent (Foreman Client) is deployed to the newly generated host.

I end up with an Ubuntu server with a minimal apt config for only the main Ubuntu repo, as Preseed Autoinstall cloud-init user data disables multiverse, backports, security and updates.

How do we get a host deployed that uses local repos (Foreman + Katello) with the Foreman Client from Atix automatically installed?