bootmachine 0.6.0

A fabric library to bootstrap servers and configuration management software.

Bootmachine is a bootstrapping tool for securely provisioning virtual servers up until the point where customized configuration management begins.

The bootmachine’s goal is to allow getting started with, maintenance of, and exploring new stack options through a simple, pluggable and highly customizable interface.

Configuration Management Tools

Currently supported:

• Salt http://saltstack.org

• Write your own

Next in the queue:

• Chef http://www.opscode.com/chef/

• Puppet http://puppetlabs.com/

• Write your own

Providers

Currently supported:

• Rackspace Openstack Compute API v2 via python-novaclient

• Non-rackspace Openstack Compute via python-novaclient

• Rackspace Openstack Compute API v1 via openstack.compute (deprecated) http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/

• Write your own

Next in the queue:

• Amazon EC2 via boto https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/

• Virtualbox / Vagrant http://vagrantup.com/

• Write your own

Distros

Currently supported:

• Arch Linux

• Ubuntu

• Fedora

• Debian

• Write your own

Next in the queue:

• FreeBSD

• Gentoo

• openSUSE

• CentOS

• RHEL

• Write your own

Documentation about the usage and installation of the bootmachine can be found at: http://bootmachine.readthedocs.org

The source code and issue tracker can be found on GitHub: https://github.com/rizumu/bootmachine