CHAPTER 6Setting Up AutomatedInstallation
It is critically important that you use unattended operating-system installation tools for every system you deploy. If you were to load the OS manually, you would rarely (if ever) get the same configuration on all your systems. It would be nearly impossible to configure your systems properly from that point forward.
Automated installation systems offer several key benefits:
- When all systems are initially configured in an identical manner, automated system-configuration tools such as cfengine don't have to account for varying initial system state. This minimizes the complexity of the automation system itself.
- Many systems can be installed and deployed at once, even by a junior SA or datacenter technician. ...
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