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Ideas for Automation with Centralized Configuration Tool
You automated everything with cfengine, puppet or fabric. It works so smoothly that you are now looking for some more things to automate. Wireless WEP/WPA passwords, make available to all users in each slave Add shortcuts to desktop Add language … Continue reading
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Virtualize Servers with KVM, Cloudmin and Ubuntu
My students Antti Ollila, Sakarias Hiltunen and Juha Salminen virtualized some servers. They set up a web interface that creates new virtual servers with a click of a button. After trying some alternatives, they ended up using KVM and Cloudmin. … Continue reading
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Vagrant promises to automate virtual machine creation
Vagrant promises to automate creation of VirtualBox virtual machines. Vagrant automatically adds ssh access, software and port forwarding. But is Vagrant ready for prime time yet? My students Tuomas Aaltonen, Toni Honkanen and Jesse Lindroos decided to try it out. … Continue reading
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55 Computer Cloud – with Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud
The cloud at its biggest was about 55 nodes. When trying out the Folding@Home, we successfully installed Origami on 64 VM instances. Arttu got Irssi IRC-client and WordPress client running in the VMs, but due to the lack of backups and/or snapshot functionality, … Continue reading
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Ubuntu Preseed
Table of Contents Ubuntu Preseed Sample List of d-i Settings in Ubuntu Hardy Ubuntu Preseed Sample # labseed – automatic installation for labs – # (c) 2006 Tero Karvinen www.iki.fi/karvinen # Still asks: Clock set to UTC, hostname. d-i debconf/language … Continue reading
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Network Boot Server with Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy
Table of Contents Network Boot Server with Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Install DHCP server PXE Specific DHCP Settings TFTP Serves Files Install TFTP Copy Files to Server Test TFTP Network Boot Server with Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Ubuntu can work as a … Continue reading
PXE Network Booting on Ubuntu Linux
Table of Contents PXE Network Booting on Ubuntu Linux What Next? Appendix: Modified dhcpd.conf for PXE Appendix: Modified pxelinux.cfg/default for Kickstart Extras PXE Network Booting on Ubuntu Linux How to use PXE network boot to install workstations automatically. This article … Continue reading
Kickstart Ubuntussa
Table of Contents Kickstart Ubuntussa Testaus Erikoismerkit amerikkalaisesta näppäimistöstä Työkaluja ks.cfg parantamiseen Kickstart-esimerkki Katso myös Kickstart Ubuntussa Testaus Boottaa Ubuntu-rompulta, käytä käynnistysparametrina linux ks=http://example.com/uks/ks.cfg Jos asentuu, kopioi ks.cfg omalle kotisivulle. Kokeile weppiselaimella, että se näkyy. Sitten boottaa rompulta ja käytä … Continue reading
DHCP – automatic network configuration
Table of Contents DHCP – automatic network configuration DHCP Server Setup Test with a Client See also DHCP – automatic network configuration Almost all networks use DHCP to share network configuration (such as ip-addresses) automatically. This document explains how to … Continue reading
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Install Workstations Automatically
Table of Contents Install Workstations Automatically Procedure Overview Workstation Prequisites Server Prequisites Process Random tips Install Workstations Automatically Turn an empty workstation (that’s not on) into a usable workstation, so that users can log in and begin work. Only the … Continue reading
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