• Description
• Setup
  • Requirements
• Usage
• Reference
• Limitations
• Development

Description

Use vagrant to spin up a network-isolated SIMP puppetserver and PXE kickstart EL6, EL7, EL8 clients.

Features:

• Uploads OS ISOs to /var/simp/ISOs
• Unpacks OS ISOs with --unpack-yum --unpack-pxe -v <SPECIFIC_OS_VERSION>
• Configures all VM consoles with VRDE, so you can see each client kickstart from its console.
• Data configured from Vagrantfile.yaml

Setup

Requirements

• Vagrant
• Puppet Bolt 2.30+
• simp-packer-generated Vagrant .json and .box file for a SIMP server
• CentOS/RedHat OS ISOs to use for yum/tftpboot (for PXE kickstarting)

If you are using RVM, make sure to rvm use system to disable it before running Bolt.

Usage

1. Configure Vagrantfile.yaml with the correct paths to all files

2. Bring up the puppetserver:

   vagrant up puppetserver

3. Bring up the pxe clients to kickstart

   vagrant up pxe8
   vagrant up pxe7
   vagrant up pxe6
   vagrant up uefi8
   vagrant up uefi7
   vagrant up uefi6

Reference

Limitations

• Vagrant can't SSH into an EL6 puppetserver

Development