Foreman UUID Boot
Allows booting machines based off of machine UUID instead of - or in addition to - interface MAC
Example iPXE boot URLs;
http://foreman.example.com/unattended/iPXE?mac=${netX/mac}&uuid=${uuid}
http://template-proxy.example.com:8000/unattended/iPXE?mac=${netX/mac}&uuid=${uuid}
Also works with http://foreman.example.com/unattended/iPXE?bootstrap=true
after extending the iPXE intermediate script with;
- chain --autofree --replace <%= foreman_url('iPXE', {}, { mac: "${net#{i}/mac}" }) %> || goto net<%= i+1 %>
+ chain --autofree --replace <%= foreman_url('iPXE', {}, { mac: "${net#{i}/mac}", uuid: "${uuid}" }) %> || goto net<%= i+1 %>
Installation
See the Plugins install instructions, advanced installation from gems for information on how to install this plugins.
To enable the slower fact searching in addition to the UUID boot facet, create a plugin configuration file under /etc/foreman/plugins
with;
---
:uuidboot_factsearch: true
Contributing
Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on the LiU GitLab at https://gitlab.liu.se/ITI/foreman_uuid_boot or on GitHub at https://github.com/ananace/foreman_uuid_boot
License
The gem is available as open source under the terms of the GPL-3.0 License.