Prerequisites

BIOS setup

You need to do it once per machine if the default config is not sufficent, usually for consumer hardware this can not be automated (it requires something like IPMI to automate).

Below is my BIOS setup, your motherboard may have a different name for the options, so you'll need to adapt it with your hardware.

{
    "Devices": {
        "Network Setup": {
            "PXE IPv4": true,
            "PXE IPv6": false
        }
    },
    "Advanced": {
        "CPU Setup": {
            "VT-d": true
        }
    },
    "Power": {
        "Automatic Power On": {
            "WoL": "Automatic"
        }
    },
    "Security": {
        "Secure Boot": false
    },
    "Startup": {
        "CSM": false
    }
}

Update config files

Gather the following information:

MAC address for each machine
OS disk name (for example /dev/sda)
Network interface name (for example eth0)
Choose a static IP address for each machine (just the desired address, we don't set anything up yet)

Fork this repo and update these config files based on those information:

metal/hosts.yml
metal/group_vars/all.yml
TODO git config in bootstrap/...
TODO single place for Ingress domain
(Optional) TODO single place for docs link config

TODO single place for all config, maybe a ./config directory with some symlinks?

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Prerequisites

BIOS setup

Update config files

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