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MFredette edited this page Jan 27, 2014 · 38 revisions

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

Newly added machines in a Razor deployment PXE boot from a special Razor microkernel image, then check in, provide Razor with inventory information, and wait for further instructions. Razor consults user-created policy rules to choose which preconfigured model to apply to a new node. The new node then begins 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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This Razor technical preview is a 0.x release. This means that we might make backwards incompatible changes, especially to the database schema, that could require you to rebuild all the machines that Razor is managing. Therefore, the current code base is perfectly suitable for evaluation and smaller lab setups, but not recommended for production use. Download the latest release (gpg signature) and install it.

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