Creating custom apt repositories in centos or el based cobbler

Posted by Alastair Munro on Tuesday, September 23, 2014
Introduction I setup a build for ubuntu 12.04 and found that the standard alt/server iso’s were missing some basic packages like ntp and autofs. Seems like Canonical were not serious...

Using template scripts for Debian and Ubuntu seeds

Posted by Alastair Munro on Wednesday, September 17, 2014
Introduction Debian/ubuntu server building uses a totally different method to fedora/redhat/centos. It uses debian installer (google for docs). If you look at the sample.seed kickstart in cobbler, you will see...

Cobbler 2.6.5 Released

Posted by Jörgen on Friday, August 15, 2014
Cobbler 2.6.5 is now officially available! This release is a very minor update to correct a bug which prevents that kickstarts for systems can’t be changed. All 2.6.x users are...

Cobbler 2.4.8 Released

Posted by Jörgen on Friday, August 15, 2014
Cobbler 2.4.8 is now officially available! This release is a very minor update to correct a bug which prevents that kickstarts for systems can’t be changed. All users stuck on...

Speeding up Triggers

Posted by Alastair Munro on Monday, August 11, 2014
One master and three slave cobbler setup For our setup we have one master and three cobbler slaves. In effect one cobbler server per data center for our four data...