Building Stacki 3 Provisioning Server Frontend on the Scale HC3 Cluster in the NTG Lab
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Stacki 3 is the latest release of the Stacki Linux auto-provisioning platform. Testing it out on the Scale HC3 cluster we did run into a small hickup, there is an issue causing a delay during the initial startup of the graphical installation process. So be prepared to fire up and system and sit idly by for an hour while it waits on a blank screen before continuing. Other than that, the initial installation is quite simple, however it does not follow the StackiQ simple install documentation leaving us on our own once the base installation has completed.
Make sure to create a disk large enough to handle the installation repos that it is going to have to hold. You do not want to make this one too small.
At this point the installer reboots and drops you to a login prompt. That's it, the hand holding is over. Where to now?
Note: Stacki 1.x and much of the easy install documents say that you need a public and a private network for a Stacki install. This is out of date and only one network is used for Stacki 2.x and later.
Because of the changes made, this is a complete install! Now to start building nodes with it.
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Does this thing mirror the entire repository? That could explain what it was doing when it looked stuck overnight. Or I could just be confusing two different things SAM has been posting about, wouldn't be the first time, and sure won't be the last.
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@travisdh1 said:
Does this thing mirror the entire repository? That could explain what it was doing when it looked stuck overnight. Or I could just be confusing two different things SAM has been posting about, wouldn't be the first time, and sure won't be the last.
It does but it stalls before loading the kernel. It has no networking at that point.
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So is this just MAAS for CentOS?
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@johnhooks said:
So is this just MAAS for CentOS?
More or less.
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MAAS supports CentOS? Does it run on CentOS too?
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@anonymous said:
MAAS supports CentOS? Does it run on CentOS too?
No, I was asking if this is the MAAS equivalent for CentOS.
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Updated as I figured out where things have moved away from the documentation that I had. The five minute install video is for Stacki 1.x and they have changed quite a bit at the core so that is why the video does not reflect the needs of the current installer. Avoid the StackiQ video for installation.
