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They made some serious missteps imho re: strategy. releasing and then not marketing razor server when everyone was shifting to VMs, halting development of the open source dashboard, not really investing in containerized environments, kubernetes, etc.

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Halting development of the open source dashboard really hurt me, so I setup my own little alternative:

https://github.com/skx/puppet-summary/

Simple to deploy, configure, and use. Although I always felt I should perhaps have based my work against the puppetdb to get a more dynamic "dashboard" it certainly replaced the old dashboard, and being only a single binary it is simple to install & manage.

Foreman too heavy for the use case?

https://www.theforeman.org/

I suspect that I didn't know about that project back in 2017 when I started my own hasty reimplementation.

(Though I don't know if it supported puppet at that time.)

I actually miss using Razor. That was the best Pxeboot based system I have run into

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