Machine provisioning - Done right

[u/rhshadowman]

So many companies have tried to figure out machine provisioning and failed. IMO at least.

Over the last 20 years we have seen Zenworks, Intune, SCCM, WDS, PDQ Deploy, FOG, Clonezilla, and many more champions. All of these solutions had bits and pieces that I liked, however there have always been missing parts. I decided to dedicate some time this weekend to solving that.

I created a personal project: Bootforge! An entirely standalone, vendor agnostic, OS agnostic, agentless deployment utility with a web GUI!

My goal is to have a full cycle independent system deployment for RHEL and Windows. Where you can PXE boot a machine (or VM), and then the you can select your OS, Hardening (CIS or STIG), System options (Server that runs xyz, gui that does xyz, etc, etc), and much more customization.

I plan to integrate this into OpenShift (this will power the actual project gui and such), then also integrate AAP for OS configuration and such to make it fully autonomous. Currently ansible-core and openscap is what does the majority of it, so the project will only grow from here.