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Data Infrastructure Management 2024

Samuel Kudrna, Jinun Kim, Ryan Baik,

Alexander Kotelnikov, Mattias Dorey

Mentor: Alexei Kotelnikov

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Advisors: Dr. Richard Howard and Dr. Richard Martin

Objective

Deploy Linux diskless systems for installation and provisioning with Warewulf​ and manage our own servers

Future Plans

We plan to make Warewulf more usable and customizable by developing python and shell scripts to manage containers and overlays.

The Environment

Wireguard - VPN that creates a tunnel connection to our nodes

Nodes - Physical servers we used for Warewulf testing

Proxmox - Virtual machines we used to host Warewulf

Warewulf

Warewulf Services:

  • DHCP
    • Provides network devices with Ips
  • TFTP
    • Provides the IPXE OS Bootloader
  • Warewulfd
    • Deploys the OS onto the node
  • VNFS Image
    • Contains the OS and additional configurations

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Warewulf Commands:

  • wwctl container [import, shell, list]
  • wwctl profile [set, list]
  • wwctl node [add, set, status, delete, list]
  • wwctl overlay build

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Warewulf Workflow

Acknowledgements

Ivan Seskar, for managing the internship​

Jennifer Shane, for leading the groups​

Ruddy Jacas, for presenting his work​

Alexei Kotelnikov, for being out mentor​

And the rest of the winlab team and interns, for making this such a fabulous experience​

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