I’m wanting to create a centralized repository to keep base images of operating systems to be installed on new laptops or workstations bought/used in my household with my local CA already installed, configured to authenticate with my local FreeIPA instance, network configurations already configured, etc.
What do you all use to accomplish this? I’m only free/libre/open source software for my home lab, so that’s a requirement as well.
Ideally I’d like to be able to buy a computer, flash the latest and greatest from my repository onto a bootable thumb drive, install onto the computer, and be ready to go without any further configuration.
This is something NixOS excels at, but there is a bit of a learning curve. Maybe ansible as a non distro specific approach although I haven’t used it myself.
seems likea FOG server: https://fogproject.org/ is what you need.
A awesome project and greatly simplifies the PXE boot process. You have a repo of images you have setup ready to go and be installed.
I set this up for production on a factory floor for others to use. It’s nice, works extremely well once set up. Importing and exporting images could be easier.
I liked fog a few years back
I didn’t actually implement it, but it looked like the winner last time I looked. I’d also recommend starting there.
For work it’s all Windows so we use MECM.
Fog and sysprep.
