From the course: Red Hat Certified System Administrator (EX200) Cert Prep: 1 Deploy, Configure, and Manage (2021)

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Use kickstart files to automate installs

Use kickstart files to automate installs

From the course: Red Hat Certified System Administrator (EX200) Cert Prep: 1 Deploy, Configure, and Manage (2021)

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Use kickstart files to automate installs

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- [Presenter] We can automate installs on Linux using a Kickstart file. A Kickstart file is an instruction file telling the installer how to install the OS. Kickstart was created by Red Hat and most Red Hat-based distributions support it. Other non-Red Hat based operating systems support Kickstart as well such as Debian and Ubuntu Linux even though they have their own automated installation systems. The Kickstart file takes care of creating partitions, creating users, network settings and installing software in addition to configuring other miscellaneous items. When we install CentOS, a Kickstart file is automatically saved as /root/anaconda-ks.cfg in case we want to repeat the exact same installation, this file is a good example of a Kickstart file if you want to peruse it. In the exercise files for this course I have included a custom Kickstart file that we will use. Be sure to download the exercise files zip archive…

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