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Razor is an advanced provisioning application which can deploy both bare-metal and virtual systems. It's aimed at solving the problem of how to bring new metal into a state where your existing DevOps/configuration management workflows can take it over.

Newly added machines in a Razor deployment will PXE-boot from a special Razor Microkernel image, then check in, provide Razor with inventory information, and wait for further instructions. Razor will consult user-created policy rules to choose which preconfigured model to apply to a new node, which will begin to follow the model's directions, giving feedback to Razor as it completes various steps. Models can include steps for handoff to a DevOps system such as Puppet or to any other system capable of controlling the node (such as a vCenter server taking possession of ESX systems).

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Getting in touch

• on IRC: #puppet-razor on freenode
• mailing list: puppet-razor

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This is a 0.x release; that means that we might make backwards incompatible changes, especially to the database schema which would force you to rebuild all the machines that Razor is managing. The current code base is perfectlt suitable for evaluation and smaller lab setups but not for production use. Download the latest release (gpg signature) and install it

Pages

• Installation: how to get a Razor environment up and running
• Getting started: using the CLI to do useful things
• Writing installers: control how bits wind up on disk
• Writing broker types: getting management involved
• Developer setup: for when you feel like hacking
• Node identity: how Razor tells nodes apart
• API reference: available API calls
• Reference
  • Tags
  • Repos
  • Installers
  • Brokers
  • Policies
  • Nodes