Scripts for booting FreeBSD images from the install ISO for use in Jenkins?

[Craig Rodrigues]

On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 2:26 AM, Rainer Duffner <rainer at ultra-secure.de> wrote:
> Am Mon, 17 Mar 2014 19:30:01 -0700
> schrieb Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc at FreeBSD.org>:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> For the BSD DevSummit in May, one of the items
>> on our agenda:
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>> https://wiki.freebsd.org/201405DevSummit/Jenkins
>>
>> is to talk about writing scripts which can take a FreeBSD ISO image,
>> and then boot it and run it on a remote system or in a VM
>> to install the OS.  After the OS is up, we would like to run tests.
>> All of this would be triggered from Jenkins.
>>
>> Does anyone have scripts which can do this?
>> Can they be contributed to the Jenkins effort on FreeBSD?
>>
>> If you have scripts in Python, Ruby, Bourne shell, etc. are all fine,
>> or even recipes in automation frameworks like Puppet, Ansible, Chef,
>> SaltStack, etc.,
>> please let us know! :)
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> I would have loved to attend this talk:
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> http://2014.asiabsdcon.org/timetable.html.en#P7A
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> Hopefully, more documentation and/or the slides/the video for this talk
> will become available.


Rainer,

Thanks for posting that link!  It is highly relevant to my original posting.
That looks like a really good presentation, and I also wish I could
have attended the talk!
There seem to be many automation frameworks for provisioning and
booting VM's and real machines.
I just need to learn one of them. :)

--
Craig