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https://github.com/voxpupuli/puppet-pxe

Puppet module for deploying a PXE boot server
https://github.com/voxpupuli/puppet-pxe

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Puppet module for deploying a PXE boot server

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# Puppet Powered PXE Provisioning

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Super awesome Puppet powered PXE menu and image management for network based
installations. Seriously. Its awesome.

Features
--------
* Automatic image fetching
* Menu management for easy selection at boot time
* Host specific menu management
* Supported OSs
* Debian
* Ubuntu
* CentOS
* RetHat (with `baseurl`)
* Fedora
* Scientific
* CoreOS

Dependencies
---

You will need a running TFTP configured. The module now depends on the
`puppetlabs/tftp` module.

## Sample Usage

# Basic setup

```Puppet
class { 'tftp': }
class { 'pxe': }
```

This will setup a tftp server and directory and install pxelinux into it with a
base configuration.

### Images

Here is a sample of how one might stage the network installation images and
build menus for selection at boot time.

First, we start by dragging in the pre-reqs for the whole process.

```Puppet
include pxe
```

Next, lets loop over some data and create a few `pxe::installer` resources
using the new Puppet language methods.

```Puppet
$debian_architectures = ['amd64', 'i386']
$debian_versions = ['squeeze', 'wheezy', 'jessie']

$debian_versions.each |$ver| {
$os = 'debian'

$debian_architectures.each |$arch| {

pxe::installer { "${os}_${ver}_${arch}":
arch => $arch,
ver => $ver,
os => $os,
file => "os_${os}",
kernel => "images/${os}/${ver}/${arch}/linux",
append => "initrd=images/${os}/${ver}/${arch}/initrd.gz text",
}
}
}
```

This structure could be extended considerably, but it paints a picture for how
to build a bunch of resources using the puppet iteration. This module used to
recommend use of the `resource_permute()` function, but that was long before
the new Puppet4 language constructs replaced the need for this function. As
such, its recommended that you use the `pxe::installer` resources directly.

## Syslinux

By default this module will install the latest version of syslinux, downloaded
from kernel.org (You can see the latest version in the manifests/params.pp)
file. To install the version that ships with your OS, or to specify a version,
pass the syslinux variable to pxe.

For Example:

class { 'pxe':
syslinux_version => 'system',
}

### Menus

```Puppet
include pxe

pxe::menu { 'Main Menu':
file => 'default',
template => 'pxe/menu_default.erb';
}

pxe::menu::entry { 'Installations':
file => 'default',
append => 'pxelinux.cfg/menu_install',
}

pxe::menu { "Operating System (${arch})":
file => 'menu_install',
}

pxe::menu { 'Debian':
file => 'os_debian',
}
```

### Host Configs

```Puppet
pxe::menu::entry { "server1.dyrden.net":
file => "01-aa-bb-cc-dd-ee-ff",
kernel => "images/debian/i386/squeeze/squeeze",
append => "vga=791 initrd=images/debian/i386/squeeze/squeeze.gz",
}
```