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		bayindirh on July 2, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Booting Linux off of Google Drive PXE is still the king in large DCs. I can install ~250 servers in 15 minutes with a single xCAT node over traditional gigabit Ethernet. Give another 5 minutes for post-install provisioning and presto! Your fleet is ready.

bogota on July 3, 2024 [–]

Nice! That was my experience as well. Just wanted to make sure I wasn’t falling too far out of date while I switched to some MLops roles for a while.

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