Inventory Management and End to End Provisioning. Basejump is written entirely in python.

Basejump can be setup in many ways. You can clone/fork the repo and simply run it as you would any django app, or you can use the provided chef cookbook. A fixture is provided to insert some demo data. The default username/password is admin/admin.

git clone [email protected]:kplimack/basejump.git
cd basejump
./manage.py syncdb
./manage.py runserver|run_gunicorn

Simply add recipe[basejump] to your node's run_list.

{
  "name":"my_node",
    "run_list": [
        "recipe[basejump]"
     ]
}

• Centos >= 5
• Debian >= 6

• mysql - inventory database (could easily swap in any other database you like)
• tftpd - tftp server for kicking hosts
• xinetd - run tftp server via xinetd
• syslinux - syslinux

• apache - frontend to proxy for gunicorn, since gunicorn ain't so good at it
• nginx - frontend to proxy, same as apache, but lighter and probably more apt
• supervisord - controls gunicorn processes
• gunicorn - python application server

The best way to debug basejump is to run it manually (not via supervisord/gunicorn). You will get more debugging output than gunicorn logs. You can also check the logs, which go to /var/log/supervisor/basejump-std{out,err}. When basejump gets a request for a preseed or kickstart file, it will log the incoming request and response to $BASEJUMP_PATH/kicker.log.

cd /data/www/basejump/
source ./shared/env/bin/activate
cd current
pip install -r requirements.txt
./manage runserver 0.0.0.0:8080

cd /data/www/basejump/
source ./env/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
./manage runserver 0.0.0.0:8080

While testing Debian systems, I noticed that I was unable to get the host to send it's MAC address along with the preseed file request. RHEL has an option called kssendmac and Debian is supposed to have something called IPAPPEND (it's in the syslinux docs), but it doesn't work. So we (Andrew Stone) and I rolled our own initrd.gz which sets the client MAC in the USER_AGENT header of the request. You can create your own initrd.gz using the makefile and patch file here [https://github.com/kplimack/debian-initrd].