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What's the most automated way of deploying a system image? (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by Ok_Exchange_9646@alien.top to c/homelab@selfhosted.forum

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I know about MDT, WDS

The way I do it is I create a super generalized image via NTLite and powershell scripts and I deploy it on the system. I do have to create a user account manually in the middle of the process, tho, and wait for the scripts to run post-install upon first logon

Can it be more automated than this? How do companies do it?

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[–] multidollar@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Are you talking about bare metal or virtual machines?

Bare Metal I used Microsoft SCCM. It’s a pain to manage but when it works right you can easily use Task Sequences to deploy images with PXE boot.

I also had a previous install of Dell Open Enterprise Manager.

VMs, anything like Terraform and Ansible will work to deploy an image.