Comments on: Spacewalk’s first steps http://www.bofh-hunter.com/2008/07/10/spacewalks-first-steps/ Admin Spotting for Fun and Profit Fri, 16 Jul 2010 09:41:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Jim Perrin http://www.bofh-hunter.com/2008/07/10/spacewalks-first-steps/comment-page-1/#comment-79 Jim Perrin Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:06:58 +0000 http://www.bofh-hunter.com/?p=33#comment-79 I have not done a comparison of the two, mostly because I didn't really want to. Cobbler seemed to me to be all about the provisioning or install of machines, and I don't really have a need to do mass installs. Spacewalk on the other hand allows for kickstarted installs plus management after the fact, including hardware descriptions errata lists, etc. I seem to recall some talk on the spacewalk irc channel about integrating cobbler with spacewalk. Given the purpose for each, that could be rather interesting. I have not done a comparison of the two, mostly because I didn’t really want to. Cobbler seemed to me to be all about the provisioning or install of machines, and I don’t really have a need to do mass installs. Spacewalk on the other hand allows for kickstarted installs plus management after the fact, including hardware descriptions errata lists, etc.

I seem to recall some talk on the spacewalk irc channel about integrating cobbler with spacewalk. Given the purpose for each, that could be rather interesting.

]]> By: Brent http://www.bofh-hunter.com/2008/07/10/spacewalks-first-steps/comment-page-1/#comment-78 Brent Fri, 11 Jul 2008 03:59:40 +0000 http://www.bofh-hunter.com/?p=33#comment-78 Thanks for this. Do you have a read on the [disad|ad]vantages of Spacewalk vs Cobbler (http://cobbler.et.redhat.com/)? I know the devel branch of Cobbler has a full repository mirroring/syncing command. While just a thin wrapper over rsync it's nicely abstracted. Thanks for this. Do you have a read on the [disad|ad]vantages of Spacewalk vs Cobbler (http://cobbler.et.redhat.com/)? I know the devel branch of Cobbler has a full repository mirroring/syncing command. While just a thin wrapper over rsync it’s nicely abstracted.

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