YaKa project is a complete environment which purpose is to provide an efficient method to deploy operating systems on a wide heterogeneous number of computers. Deploying operating systems sitewide will require the following steps:
Describe the different computers composing the site using the Yaka language: the hosts, the system(s) needed for each host, the dependencies between client and server.
Add the specific features of each hosts (Linux kernel's .config Linux kernel, tools not provided by the YaKa Linux distributions, Microsft Windows or other images, etc.),
Run the YaKa command line in order to generate the start-daemon.sh,
Use the generated start-daemon.sh script to start the YaKa systems,
reboot each DHCP enabled hosts,
Take a coffee break while Yaka's working for you,
YaKa can help you in many ways to manage your site the main of those being:
if you want similar computers, you have the guarantee that computer systems are exactely the same.
reinstalling a computer is almost immediate,
updating the computers is very much easy,
The YaKa distribution provides many default configurations as user's account management mixing NFS, NIS, and SAMBA, as date synchronization, .... These default configurations are robust and can be used as such.
having several system on your boxes.
Product's homepage
Find us on Google+
