bootmachine 0.5.1

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 and highly customizable interface.

Providers

Currently supported:

• Rackspace Openstack Compute API v1 via openstack.compute

• Rackspace Openstack Compute API v2 via python-novaclient

• Non-rackspace Openstack Compute via python-novaclient

• Write your own

Next in the queue:

• Amazon EC2 via boto

• Virtualbox / Vagrant

• Write your own

Distros

Currently supported:

• Arch Linux

• Ubuntu

• Fedora

• Debian (ready, but waiting for salt to land in the repos or a workaround)

• Write your own

Next in the queue:

• Gentoo

• openSUSE

• CentOS

• RHEL

• Write your own

Configuration Management Tools

Currently supported:

• Salt

• Write your own

Next in the queue:

• Chef

• Puppet

• 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