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I have installed a Spacewalk server. One of the final features I am trying to configure is Kickstart. I cannot seem to find any definitive documentation on how to set this up in a "real environment". We already have a DHCP server, I would like to use dnsmasq with PXE.

Since the documentation is scarce regarding Spacewalk, I have looked towards cobbler documentation.

Spacewalk 2.0 is bundled with Cobbler 2.0.11. A couple of sites suggest installing cobbler-loaders for additional features.

Environment

CentOS 6.4 (64-bit) / Spacewalk 2.0

Questions

  1. As I couldn't find in the "official documentation", should cobbler-loaders be installed?

  2. Is dnsmasq already installed as part of cobbler/Spacewalk or should it be installed using it's own package?

  3. Since cobbler seems to work independently to Spacewalk, should I be able to do a yum install cobbler for the latest version 2.4.3, or would that not be a wise course of action?

  4. Since I may have someone's attention, would there be a guide that I may have missed or someone has put together that would help?

Any assistance would be appreciated, thank you.

canon
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  • I don't mean to be rude but why Spacewalk? I thought that was depreciated, everyone uses Puppet or Chef these days I thought? – Chopper3 Mar 10 '14 at 16:27
  • @Chopper3 I'd personally agree not to use Spacewalk but Puppet/Chef is not a replacement for it. Maybe Razor? – faker Mar 10 '14 at 17:06
  • Spacewalk is not depreciated, although have recently been made aware of [Katello](http://ww.katellog.org/faq/). The decision for Spacewalk was made before me, I need to make it work. Maybe look into Katello, which looks promising, however, at the moment Spacewalk is the path I must take. – canon Mar 10 '14 at 17:20
  • Have you looked at Foreman? It has kickstart integration. – Mark Thomas Jun 09 '14 at 13:50

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Upstream cobbler is at version 2.4.0. I can see no point in using something older.

The link is both to the current online docs of the product and a quickstart guide to having a working environment.

With regards to kickstart, the online Red Hat official documentation covers the topic in great detail.

dawud
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  • I too don't see the point in using something older, however, I am not certain that doing a `yum install -y cobbler` will "break" the Spacewalk server. Currently when I do a `yum list cobbler` it does not show as installed, however, as available. As for the Kickstart documentation, I've read through that many times and nowhere are my questions addressed in it. – canon Mar 10 '14 at 17:28
  • On our spacewalk 2.1 server, both cobbler20 and cobbler2 (and cobbler-loaders) is installed. It isn't called just cobbler, probably because it is an older version. I wouldn't install the newer version, just to be safe. I'm also not sure a newer version would give you anything else that you need. – lsd May 21 '15 at 17:43