I needed a simple way to mirror some repos, and potentially kickstart some servers at a future date. While something like The Foreman↗ would do the build side of things it doesn’t repo mirrors (yet). So I did an install of Cobbler↗ .
This turned out to be more stright forward than I thought, first you need to ensure EPEL↗ is enabled ….
Installing Cobbler on CentOS 6.x 1/1 yum install http://ftp.linux.ncsu.edu/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm yum install cobbler cobbler-web pykickstart chkconfig cobblerd on chkconfig xinetd on service httpd restart service xinetd start service cobblerd start service cobblerd status cobbler get-loaders vim /etc/cobbler/modules.conf # Make the following changes …. [dns] module = manage_dnsmasq [dhcp] module = manage_dnsmasq [authentication] module = authn_configfile [authorization] module = authz_allowall # once done save and run the following …. cobbler check cobbler sync # cobbler sets the username and password for the web interface to cobbler / cobbler, change that by running …. htdigest /etc/cobbler/users.digest “Cobbler” cobbler ….. all done. You should be able to access your installation at …..
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