On Feb 3, 2008 12:41 AM, Gary Richardson gary.richardson@gmail.com wrote:

Add this to the end of your kickstart file:

%post

yum -y update

In fact, you can do all sorts of things, like configure services using chkconfig. You have a bash interpreter and your chrooted into your new install.

I used to do all sorts of crazy stuff in there, until I found puppet :) Now I have minimal kickstart configs and I let puppet do all the heavy lifting.

And how do you get kickstart to start puppet? Do you need to add stuff in %post or is it enough to just install the packages?

We are investigating doing just that - kickstart a CentOS Xen guest and get it to pull as much configuration as possible through puppet.

Any other hints anyone can give about using Puppet on CentOS would be appreciated.

Thanks.

--Amos