Instead of constantly making these updates, let's just remove the year
since things are stored in git anyways, and this is not an actual modern
legal risk anymore.
This lets you boot from ipxe. You can run the ipxe shell from their
stock image or the netboot.xyz one. For the latter, press "m", then type
"dhcp" (machine is now pingable!) then type "route" to check the ip.
To boot type:
chain http://192.168.42.1:4280/menu.ipxe
and you're off!
Thanks to frebib for finding the workaround to the VFS bug. The answer
is you need to run the imgfree command to unblock the initrd.
Unfortunately with Fedora 41 and DNF5, this breaks what our host machine
expects. So you now need dnf5+ to make this work, or you can revert this
commit.
This is needed for bigger code bases. Remember: this is consulted at the
deploy stage, and the deploy contains the entire tree (including
modules) of everything it needs to run. This is why you don't need to
add a --module-path arg when running mgmt in systemd with the "empty"
frontend.
Here's a good first way to implement handoff. What's particularly
elegant about handoff here, is that this is the first form of it I know,
where handoff happens between a provisioning tool and a configuration
management tool and those are the same tool! As a result, this can allow
for some really elegant integration, and the end-user never has to deal
with the combinatorial explosion of the N * M scenario of gluing each
provisioning tool to each different configuration management tool.
We'll have other forms of handoff in the future, but this simple
approach is useful already.
This makes the current deploy available. This is likely not useful when
this is used from the embedded provisioner cli tool, since it would
contain cli functions that won't run, but it is useful when it's used as
a library.
We need better overview of all the PXE/netboot stuff, probably we should
read a spec, but until an expert comes along, we'll have to proceed
incrementally.
This removes the exclusive from the res names and edge names. We now
require that the names should be lists of strings, however they can
still be single strings if that can be determined statically.
Programmers should explicitly wrap their variables in a string by
interpolation to force this, or in square brackets to force a list. The
former is generally preferable because it generates a small function
graph since it doesn't need to build a list.
This commit adds the ability to build a standalone provisioning tool.
This is the first useful public mcl code base as well. It is not
perfect, but does serve as a rough starting point to show what is
possible. In the future as the language and the engine evolve, this will
likely get more elegant, and also grow new features.
To build this, run `make clean && GOTAGS='embedded_provisioner' make`.
To run this, run `mgmt provisioner`.
