====== Large Scale Sysadmin stuff ======

===== Whiteboard: Life cycle management =====

//Birth -> Death//

  * PXE
  * Scripted Install ''%%http://planet.freebsd.org/brd/2012/05/08/scripted-install-of-freebsd-9/%%'' (This link is broken)
  * Management (puppet, Chef, CFEngine, Perl)
  * Central auth (kerberos)
  * Upgrades
  * Packages / Bulk builds (pgkng/poudriere)

===== Brad explains what he does and comments/discussions =====

  * Never do anything only once, everything should be a repeatable process
  * bsdinstall not there yet for scripted install; just using a 100lines shell script
  * puppet, interest at PC-BSD side
  * pkgng to update the base system (binary patches, whatever, ..)
  * a bit of security on jail updating
  * puppet self-update -> no
  * puppet patches -> port -> upstream (github pull requests)
  * kerberos (TODO: docs missing, sparse, needs updated, ...) vs. puppet users setup
  * freebsd-udpate works fairly well; scripting freebsd-update; see ezjail-admin; PC-BSD as well; should fix freebsd-update; des: forks for sha256, .., simon: maybe just optimize; maybe just optimize parts and work; etcmerge; error handling is missing; Someone other than Colin should touch it
  * build packages in jails for sets of machines; poudriere needs ZFS; rebuilds everything; the pkg upgrade; pkg update
  * Need sub-packages for pkg options; PC-BSD builds from source; need a way to build more options; split things up into lots of individual parts instead of all of it in one package
  * How to manage PXE environments?   Have different versions set;  PC-BSD 9 has a utility to setup the pxe server, pc-sysinstall config, options to setup, setups NFS, etc.; %%UoOslo%% provisioning infos
  * 

  * pxeboot hangs on nfs_root; timeouts?; no sophisticated error handling; permission denied for example; 
  * uEFI and IPv6?  Not yet an issue with either; pxe still works fine
  * PC-BSD what other requests: puppet (see above), truenas, AD/nss_ldap, ZFS boot environments (snapshots in ports tree)/in PC-BSD 9 special boot environments, pc-sysinstall supports it, now supports installing linux into jails
  * //%%TrueOS%%//, targeting linux users, //meet them half-way//, ..
  * Cambridge: Xen, kerb for auth is fine, krb5 for amd is missing
  * iX working on NFS v4 things, [[/XinLi|XinLi]] maybe doing it, coordinate!