#176 RFE: Integrate with Cobbler
Closed: Fixed Opened by kanarip.

Integrate with Cobbler to enable creation of KVM/Xen Guests, DHCP and PXE stuff


Not sure about KVM guests, yet.

The goals of this RFE are currently:

  • Allow a spin to be published to a cobbler server as both:
  • Install profile
  • Install source (distro)

  • Additional tasks that might find their own ticket:

  • Pull profiles from cobbler to compose image(s)

Oh, and:

  • Provision virtual machines using koan:
  • Xen
  • KVM (might require our own bits to be submitted upstream)

Some additional notes:

  • It only makes sense to publish a profile against an existing distro
  • Add support to use cobbler as a data source for repo configuration (aka use distro from cobbler)
  • Added:
    • --use-distro
    • --use-profile
  • Adding just a distro with the API is not functional for a user that has done a compose as we will end up doing all of the imports manually/hacky. So, --add-distro is just rolled into --add-cobbler
  • --add-cobbler does what --add-distro and --add-profile would have done together.
  • --add-profile can be used with --use-distro to customize a profile

I'd like to change the scope of this to just integration with Cobbler. The virt guest provisioning should be tracked on other tickets:

  • 94

  • 95

  • 96

Closing this ticket does not restrict any other features we are going to work on with regards to Cobbler. This just shows we have basic functionality working.

Metadata Update from @kanarip:
- Issue assigned to jsteffan
- Issue set to the milestone: 2.0.4 Release

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