Facilitate mass Ubuntu installation via netboot configuration management

Registered by Reinhard Tartler

We want to enable users to easily perform mass installations of Ubuntu on a pool of machines. We develop a console tool to intelligently manage dhcpd and syslinux configuration, and provide a GUI frontend for easy point and click configuration.

N.B. We use the term 'cluster' to mean 'a pool of machines'. While this could be a pool of cluster compute nodes, it doesn't have to be. Because the mass-install infrastructure also provides generic netboot management, a more accurate name for this specification would be NetbootManagement.

Blueprint information

Status:
Not started
Approver:
Colin Watson
Priority:
Medium
Drafter:
Ivan Krstić
Direction:
Needs approval
Assignee:
Reinhard Tartler
Definition:
Approved
Series goal:
None
Implementation:
Unknown
Milestone target:
None

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Reviewed by smurf, 3 Nov. Approved by kamion, 5 Nov.

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