How To Install cobbler on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cobbler
on CentOS 7.
What is cobbler
Cobbler is a network install server. Cobbler supports PXE, ISO virtualized installs, and re-installing existing Linux machines. The last two modes use a helper tool, ‘koan’, that integrates with cobbler. There is also a web interface ‘cobbler-web’. Cobbler’s advanced features include importing distributions from DVDs and rsync mirrors, kickstart templating, integrated yum mirroring, and built-in DHCP/DNS Management. Cobbler has a XMLRPC API for integration with other applications.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install cobbler
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cobbler.
Install cobbler on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install cobbler
using yum
by running the following command:
Install cobbler on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install cobbler
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall cobbler on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the cobbler
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cobbler
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.