Daniel Jakots writes:
> You can automate installation with autoinstall(8). You can also
> automate upgrades with autoinstall(8)
This works like a charm. On our load balancers we PXE install
with a local rc.firsttime that installs python. After that we
do all the system, haproxy, nginx, &c management via ansible.
> and from 6.6 you'll be able to
> use sysupgrade(8) as well.
We are looking forward to that. *However*, there is a lot to be
said for regularly re-installing your hosts from scratch. This
ensures your installer scripts don't rot as host system "features"
accrete over time. This is prone to happen when you Ansible- or
Puppet-manage servers. Things get added, things get removed. Often
you miss hidden dependencies that sneak in; you don't want to be
discovering those when you're trying to reinstall a production host
after a catastrophic failure.
--lyndon
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