Forester Project
Bare-metal image-based unattended provisioning service for Red Hat Anaconda (Fedora, RHEL, CentOS Stream, Alma Linux...) which works out-of-box. It utilises Redfish API and UEFI HTTP Boot to deploy images created by Image Builder through Anaconda.
More information, quick start and documentation available at https://foresterorg.github.io
API
The service API is RPC over HTTP with OpenAPI Specification
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License
GNU GPL v3
Copyright (c) 2022 Lukáš Zapletal and AUTHORS, (c) 2023 Red Hat, Inc.
TODO
- Support for generic (netboot) images (https://odcs.fedoraproject.org/composes/production/latest-Fedora-ELN/compose/BaseOS/x86_64/os/images/boot.iso)
- Support for ostree/bootc via generic (netboot) images
- Uploading via URL
- Bootstrapping unknown hosts does not work (make discovery interactive?)
- Update documentation on the recent changes (template generation, note that iPXE will not work with SecureBoot)
- Create events table and store installation milestones (boot, ks, finish) and rendered templates in the database
- Change log level to debug for "finished request" log for range requests (blocks are 4096, 8192, 32768, 65536 or) for ISO HTTP EFI Boot workflow:
msg="finished request" method=GET path=/img/1/image.iso duration_ms=0s status=206 bytes=131072 trace_id=pBI45d1z - Detect installation IP address (shim + %pre curl + event table) and secure the default sshpw password with "ssh" CLI fully working
- Squash migrations and refactor table names to singular
- Perform power operation in a goroutine (simple scheduler)
- Improve hardcoded power cycle delay (configurable?)
- Implement pykickstart checking of kickstart content (generated template and ks)
- Importing shim signatures in discovery mode: https://lukas.zapletalovi.com/posts/2021/rhelcentos-8-shim-kernel-signatures/
- Ability to create/edit/show system comment
- Make SlogDualWriter optional (this is only useful for debugging)