Re: Devops question: unattended installs of FreeBSD?

On 01/12/15 11:24, Craig Rodrigues wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I had a devops person who is familiar with setting up hundreds of
> Linux nodes in cloud environment ask me what is the best way
> to do unattended installs in a cloud environment.
> Linux has kickstart installs, which are quite useful and popular.
>
> What is the equivalent in FreeBSD?
>
> In the sysinstall days, the sysinstall.cfg config file could be created
> which drove large parts of the installer.  Now that sysinstall is gone,
> what is the alternative?  Searching the web, I found two answers:
>
> (1)  Write your own script
> (2)  Use pc-sysinstall from the PC-BSD project
> http://wiki.pcbsd.org/index.php/Creating_an_Automated_Installation_with_pc-sysinstall/10.0/en

(3) Please see "SCRIPTING" in bsdinstall(8).

Let me know if you have any trouble with it.
-Nathan

> I am trying to work with a devops team who is very experienced
> with setting up Linux environments in the cloud.  Based on the available
> docs,
> it is not clear to non-FreeBSD experts how to accomplish similar things
> with FreeBSD.
>
> By the way, I would be very interested in hearing from people who have
> experience
> in installing, configuring, and upgrading hundreds or even thousands of
> FreeBSD
> nodes in devops and cloud environments.  For people who are not FreeBSD
> experts,
> but who are Linux devops experts, is it easy to do, or is there a lot of
> custom scripts which need to be written?
>
> Thanks.
> --
> Craig
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