From 4ec32ab6fa8079b289aa9cd16250d636059ee343 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Colin Walters Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2020 15:47:28 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] docs/metal: Briefly discuss hetrogenous hardware Has come up a few times, see also https://github.com/coreos/ignition/issues/1126 --- modules/ROOT/pages/bare-metal.adoc | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/modules/ROOT/pages/bare-metal.adoc b/modules/ROOT/pages/bare-metal.adoc index cb0bb455..1e1f2808 100644 --- a/modules/ROOT/pages/bare-metal.adoc +++ b/modules/ROOT/pages/bare-metal.adoc @@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ This guide provides instructions to install Fedora CoreOS to bare metal. Three o Before installing FCOS, you must have an Ignition configuration file and host it somewhere (e.g. using `python3 -m http.server`). If you do not have one, see xref:producing-ign.adoc[Producing an Ignition File]. +Note if you have servers with different types and/or number of hard drives, you must create a separate customized Ignition config for each machine (or machine class). +A good model is to have the common parts of the configuration factored out into a separate Ignition configuration which can be merged into (via HTTP or inline) the per-machine custom config. + == Installing from live ISO To install FCOS onto bare metal using the live ISO, follow these steps: