{"title":"Centralizing Server and Workstation Provisioning, Configuration, and Management with Foreman and Puppet.","authors":"Kyle Vonblohn","doi":"10.1145/3419944.3440727","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"As a lone system administrator, efficiency is key. As our Computer Science and Digital Forensics programs grew, and student enrollment continued to increase, one thing became clear: I needed a better way to control the provision / configure / management lifecycle of our servers and workstations. This paper will chronicle the journey from several disparate systems to a single console capable of managing the entire lifecycle of both servers and workstations. From Zero-touch provisioning of bare metal and virtual machines, to ensuring up-to-date configurations, as well as software deployment across both Windows and Linux systems alike.","PeriodicalId":240233,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2021 ACM SIGUCCS Annual Conference","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2021-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Proceedings of the 2021 ACM SIGUCCS Annual Conference","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3419944.3440727","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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As a lone system administrator, efficiency is key. As our Computer Science and Digital Forensics programs grew, and student enrollment continued to increase, one thing became clear: I needed a better way to control the provision / configure / management lifecycle of our servers and workstations. This paper will chronicle the journey from several disparate systems to a single console capable of managing the entire lifecycle of both servers and workstations. From Zero-touch provisioning of bare metal and virtual machines, to ensuring up-to-date configurations, as well as software deployment across both Windows and Linux systems alike.