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What is Crowbar?

Crowbar is a platform for server provisioning and deployment from bare metal. It provides server discovery, firmware upgrades, and operating system installation using PXE Boot. It deploys applications on top of functioning operating systems using chef.

release notes

News

• CROWBAR 1.2 is released. 1.3 is unstable

Documentation

• Dell Crowbar Deployment Guide
• Dell Crowbar User's Guide
• Installing Crowbar
• Installing and Running Crowbar in VirtualBox VMs
• Swift deployment tips
• Getting-Started-(Newbie-Guide)
• Videos
• Rob Hirschfeld's Blog
• RackSpace Openstack Reference Architecture
• Roadmap (and Release-notes)
• Tipps and Tricks
• How to contribute

Downloads

• Rob Hirschfeld's Builds

Community Support

• Crowbar Mailing List
• irc.freenode.net #crowbar

Development

• Building Crowbar
• Barclamp: create & install steps. (only works on Crowbar 1.1 builds!)
• Packaging Barclamps
• Upgrade Notes

License

The code and documentation is distributed under the Apache 2 license (http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html). Contributions back to the source are encouraged.

History

Crowbar was developed by the Dell CloudEdge Solutions Team (http://dell.com/openstack) as a OpenStack installer (http://OpenStack.org) but has evolved as a much broader function tool. It is a wrapper for Opscode Chef Server (http://opscode.com)

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