Other installation tools
From FAIWiki
Apart from FAI, which is for sure the best automatic installation solution, I regularly run into announcements and articles about other installation/deployment tools for various distributions and combinations of them. I'll list them here, and add info and reviews as they come:
It might be interesting, to create some comparison table and set some criteria by which we can compare these all to FAI.
Installaiton tools
- Are the 64studio custom distribution service anything like FAI? http://64studio.com/press_release_ubuntu
- kadeploy: http://kadeploy.imag.fr/index.html
- cobbler/koan: http://cobbler.et.redhat.com/
- google slack:
- hp has something, too("one installer for many distributions":
- on the windows side Unattended: http://unattended.sourceforge.net/
- it is defintely possible to create unattended install files based on classes with FAI!
- a alternate windows tool: http://www.uib.de/www/home/opsi/index.html
Configurations management tools
- Puppet: http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet
- Automateit: http://automateit.org/
- bcfg2: http://trac.mcs.anl.gov/projects/bcfg2
- Windows pakcge managgement (maybe we can use wpkg to enable softupdates on windows): http://wpkg.org/
