Re: AW: Install Fedora CoreOS using FAI

Hi

I have a couple of questions.

- Do you deploy this system to operate a k8s cluster ?
- If so, I imagine you disable the swap (?). But why are you deploying this
stack over bare-metal, with no VM ?
- Why not using kickstart, which is the redhat standard tftp system ? (I
mean, I am a big of FAI and its powerful class system, but anyway that
choice seems a bit odd to me),
- btw, why not using k3s, rancherOS or whatever other k8s ready distro ?

I have my opinion about these last questions, but I would also like to hear
yours.

Finally, I also had to deal with httpd/tftp issues. It depends on your
booting system (I am using syslinux 6.0.4 + lighttpd for UEFI booting
systems while I am using basic tftp for legacy boot clients).

Best regards,
Rémy



Le lun. 20 avr. 2020 à 08:41, Andrew Ruthven <[email protected]> a écrit :

> Hey,
>
> Nice. I had considered using HTTP, but didn't want to deviate from the
> "recommended" approach. Well. Up until I decided to completely the
> approach. ;)
>
> That is also a much smaller initrd!
>
> The main reason I changed was to be able to configure the disk layout,
> the much faster build was a very pleasant side effect.
>
> Cheers,
> Andrew
>
> On Mon, 2020-04-20 at 06:33 +0000, Schulz, Reiner wrote:
> > For our OpenShift we use http to load the PXE file:
> >
> > /var/lib/tftpboot/gpxelinux.0
> >
> > dhcpd.conf:
> >         filename "gpxelinux.0";
> >
> > nginx:
> > $ ls -lh /usr/share/nginx/html/rhcos-4.2.18-x86_64-*
> >   63M 11. Feb 17:04 /usr/share/nginx/html/rhcos-4.2.18-x86_64-
> > installer-initramfs.img
> >  7,8M 11. Feb 17:04 /usr/share/nginx/html/rhcos-4.2.18-x86_64-
> > installer-kernel
> >  703M 11. Feb 17:04 /usr/share/nginx/html/rhcos-4.2.18-x86_64-metal-
> > bios.raw.gz
> >
> > Reiner Schulz
>
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