Installing Cobbler on CentOS 6.x

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 ….

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 …..

Installing Cobbler on CentOS 6.x

Share

Related Posts

Jenkins

Update to Puppet Install Script

First Steps with Ansible

Comments