I use my FAI (Fully Automatic Installation) software since a long time for two different HPC clusters (and all my desktops) and several other cluster were built using FAI. It does not only do first time initial installations with disk partitioning and package installation, it also does config management and can do maintenance upgrades.
For local customization you can do whatever you like to use, a lot of FAI users use shell scripts, but also their existing ansible, chef or puppet scripts. If you like the KISS (keep it simple stupid) concept, I alsways suggest shell script for config management. They are easy to read and write and are much easier than modern tools. Have a look at https://fai-project.org for more infos. P.S.: I heard that https://www.qlustar.com/ will release their cluster management tool as open source with the next release. This seems to be a GUI. They are using FAI for setting up the master node. -- regards Thomas _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
