Does anyone have any strategies and success stories for this topic?
I think I'd make an image to put onto the SD card that would know about my
foreman when it booted. After that I could reprovision it at will?
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On Wednesday, January 9, 2013 5:54:08 PM UTC-5, Lucas Vickers wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm an avid puppet user. I recently used puppet to push out software
> changes in rapid succession for an art project involving 180 laptops
> working as a continuous screen.
>
> For my groups next project we are interested in using Foreman to configure
> and control multiple Raspberry Pi's over a large LAN. I'd like to
> understand and clarify a few aspects of Foreman, and any input people can
> provide me with would be fantastic.
>
> The Raspberry Pi is a small and cheap unix platform running on the ARM11
> architecture.
>
> 1) My understanding is that Foreman will work as some kind of OS boot
> strap (like an OS install CD) and then kick off a known installer tool. If
> this is the case, then that means Foreman has been compiled for certain
> architectures and with certain drivers. Is this the case, and is there any
> detailed information I can find on this?
>
> 2) Can I put the exact same image on multiple machines (Raspberry Pi's)
> and have Foreman assign a name, sign certificates, etc, in an automated
> fashion? Dream scenario is that I write the same image onto 100 Rasperry
> Pi's and hook it up to a DHCP based network. Foreman then obtains an IP,
> downloads and configures an OS, assigns a unique name, registers with
> puppet, and listens for commands. Is this more or less how Foreman is
> used, or must I physically touch the node in the same fashion that I do
> currently with Puppet.
>
> These are my two questions for now, but they obviously lead into a large
> conversation which I would love to get started.
> I am also researching exactly what operating systems and bootstrapping
> tools are available for Raspberry Pi, and I'll happily post this to this
> list if anyone is interested.
>
> thanks everyone!
> Lucas
>
