In this chapter, we are going to look at the process of PXE booting, for physical and virtual servers. You will require two servers on the same network, and it is recommended that the network be isolated, as some of the steps performed in this chapter could be disruptive and, even, destructive if performed in a live operational network.
You will need one server (or virtual machine) to be pre-installed with your choice of Linux distribution—in our examples, we will use Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS. The other server (or virtual machine) should be blank, and suitable for reinstalling.
All example code discussed in this chapter is available from GitHub at: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Hands-On-Enterprise-Automation-on-Linux/tree/master/chapter06.
