[Gllug] Playing with a deployment idea - PXE, bittorrent, remote location

[Alan Peery]

Good morning all,

        I am playing with an idea.  If you want to deploy systems at a 
(large) set of remote office, the following is a relatively straight 
forward approach:

    * local PXE boot server serving images
    * Linux distrib suitable for clients, modified to find local server
      for yum/apt-get local repository
    * automatically scheduled daily updates from local repository

        Has anyone looked at a serverless variant of this?  Like this:

    * DHCP server directs client to PXE image across WAN
    * client downloads very minimal distribution
    * Bittorrent style download of remainder of distribution, source
      limited to PXE server and bytes already on local network
    * Later clients get all torrent bytes from local network for base OS
    * One client becomes lead for torrenting patches down, other clients
      in effect use it as a repository

       Has anyone experimented with something like this?

Alan
      

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