On 2020-04-17 09:10, Imobach González Sosa wrote:
Hi all,
After rewriting our storage layer and, partially, our network stack, the YaST team is looking now to AutoYaST, which is showing its age.
Just in case someone does not know, AutoYaST is a software component that, using an XML based description, orchestrates YaST modules to install/upgrade and configure the system in an unattended way. You might want to check the docs[1][2] for more information.
We have started started to analyze and build a list of the things we would like to address, but we would love to hear your opinion. Do you have some use case you would like to see supported? Which problems have you faced when using AutoYaST? Which features do you miss? Do you have a different vision of what AutoYaST should be (we can learn from those opinions too)?
Any idea/comment is welcome. Thanks a lot in advance!
Regards, Imo
[1] https://documentation.suse.com/sles/15-SP1/html/SLES-all/book-autoyast.html [2] https://doc.opensuse.org/projects/autoyast/
Firstly, my gratitude for maintaining autoyast. Through it, you can pre-define each and every option there is during Suse installation (and actually you can even set things that are not even asked :-) I used it for installing countless HP-servers: each and everyone got installed identically (something my colleagues never were able to obtain) And it works lightning fast: HP-servers needed more time through the BIOS than the entire installation + update, by feeding the autoyast file to the TFTPboot + PXE (before that, a co-worker was assigned an entire DAY for installing and configuring ) And, not just bare metal, but also virtual-clients I do know that you can pre-configure systems with kiwi (and can even supply an autoyastfile) but that is a rather bumpy road, not stable, and KIWI had a tendency to have a mind of its own (not configurable), especially with regards to configuring disks, LVM and crypt. So, keep it all configurable, even invisible options, please. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org