FAI + SaltStack anybody?

[Diego Zuccato]

Il 05/10/2023 15:17, Carsten Aulbert ha scritto:

> we usually try with the hardware level configuration being the "border", 
> i.e. everything related to partitioning, initial OS install, at least 
> initial networking set-up is done with FAI (well, and salt is installed 
> configured as well).
Ok, that's good.

> Then FAI reboots the server and upon service start, the server starts a 
> highstate and performs the remaining configuration.
Ok, no problem here.

> To set-up salt, we wrote our own script around fai-chboot which ssh into 
> the salt-master, creates a keypair and copies the files to the 
> appropriate places.
Uhm... I don't really like that ssh step. But probably can be 
straightened out making salt get the pubkey from FAI's state.

> FAI will install the private key during the 
> installation and the public key is already known on the master, no need 
> to accept the keys anymore.
I like even less that the private key is passed from FAI to the target, 
I'd prefer to only pass back the pubkey.

> Does that help a bit?
Yes, tks.

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