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PXE Template? (beehaw.org)

submitted 9 months ago by GnomeComedy@beehaw.org to c/nixos@lemmy.ml

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Does NixOS have a way to PXE many machines via a kickstart or preseed equivalent? I'm curious to experiment with it in the context of a University environment and we use either Cobbler or Foreman for host provisioning.

Also curious what the best practice is for config management. I only know enough to know there's a nix config file that declares everything. Does this completely supplant puppet/salt/ansible, or do you use them together?

Thanks for any tips!

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[–] GnomeComedy@beehaw.org 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What's still not obvious to me is the remote management of the nix config on 500 machines. Without a config management system like Ansible, how to you push a change to those systems?