Can you elaborate, why you chose Ubuntu?
Alpine with lbu[0] seems like a perfect fit and looks IMHO less experimental. Also you can provide backups straight via iPXE[1].
Nonetheless, kudos for the slim ubuntu image :)
Alpine with lbu[0] seems like a perfect fit and looks IMHO less experimental. Also you can provide backups straight via iPXE[1].
Nonetheless, kudos for the slim ubuntu image :)
There are some issues with this, but overall it works ok. For now, it is just what I ended up with. Total boot download is about 100megs, which isn't too bad... machine is up and running in 60s, which is fine for this workload right now. It does suck rebooting the whole datacenter at once though. ;-)
The lbu stuff looks interesting for sure. I'm not a huge fan of the additional NFS requirement, but I assume that can be worked around. That said, I'm open to changing stuff up and optimizing things further. This is some esoteric stuff and we are hiring. =)