Stacki - The World's Fastest Linux Provisioning Tool
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Kind of interesting, I guess I would need to see it in action to have a better appreciation of its goals. How does it compare, for example, to using Ansible for the same tasks? The things that it sets up seem to mostly be the things that are handled by the native installer or tools like Kickstart.
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I am assuming that this is just a start and not their final goal, so this might just be the introductory framework, of course.
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Bare metal? Works for VMs as well, I would think?
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So this looks pretty much like a MAAS competitor.
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@scottalanmiller Got this running in the lab yet? I expect a full report by 5PM EST
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It is already 9PM here, so that gives me some time
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@anonymous said:
@scottalanmiller Got this running in the lab yet? I expect a full report by 5PM EST
Does not appear to install. Starts to, but even with fallback "compatibility drivers" it just goes to a blank screen with a cursor and sits there. Nothing ever happens.
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Going to the secondary install method...
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So far... the documentation is poor and the installer does nothing at all. Nothing. So I'm putting this one as a fail. Their own ISO does not boot. Their "mount and install from CentOS" doesn't run. It just silently does ... nothing.
I could have built out a CentOS infrastructure while trying to get their installer to run.
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@scottalanmiller maybe download the ISO again?
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So just because I do hate giving up, I set it up and kicked off a boot, waited till it froze and went to bed. I let it run a few hours idle before going to bed and nothing.
Came back this afternoon and... the installer was ready to go! WTF?
Anyway, moving forward with this test.
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And the front end server is installed. Now to figure it out....
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@scottalanmiller said:
So just because I do hate giving up, I set it up and kicked off a boot, waited till it froze and went to bed. I let it run a few hours idle before going to bed and nothing.
Came back this afternoon and... the installer was ready to go! WTF?
Anyway, moving forward with this test.
So essentially you could have built a whole CentOS farm by hand in the time it took the installer to come up.
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That is definitely true. Considering that the Scale HC3 can take a template and build up a new server in round about five to ten seconds, I could have had a pretty major system well underway during the installation process here.
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It's quick once everything is completed.....
Like "hey guys the empire state building went up fast" No no... you finished it yesterday....
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@scottalanmiller Remember not all of us have a Scale HC3 just laying around =P
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@anonymous said:
@scottalanmiller Remember not all of us have a Scale HC3 just laying around =P
But you should!
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@scottalanmiller I am assuming that you are using Stacki 3, right? The CentOS 7 one?
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@anonymous said:
@scottalanmiller I am assuming that you are using Stacki 3, right? The CentOS 7 one?
Correct.
