Do you know some alternative to Xcat?

Posted by Various_Protection71@reddit | linuxadmin | View on Reddit | 9 comments

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CryptoClash@reddit

Might TrinityX be a solution for you? for us it's a perfect fit.

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atxweirdo@reddit

Check out slurm it may meet your needs

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Kangie@reddit

Assuming you mean the cluster management software, "it depends".

There's a lenovo-sponsored successor, confluent

For just provisioning nodes something like warewulf is probably the easiest solution.

Technically NVIDIA's Bright cluster manager (or whatever they renamed it to) is a candidate, but the licence cost increased a _ton_ last year, it's really for them to bundle with their solutions now.

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dud8@reddit

Avoid Lenovo Confluent if you can. Documentation is very poor, and there is no community around it to get help.

Warewulf is likely the best choice at this time as it has the largest community. There's also a new project called OpenCHAMI, but it seems overly complex.

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michaelpaoli@reddit

Okay, I'll bite, what's Xcat?

There is xCAT, but I'm not easily finding Xcat (nor xcat).

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Turbulent-Can624@reddit

Maybe this? https://github.com/mstrand/xcat

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michaelpaoli@reddit

u/Various_Protection71 Ah, ... I did something similar-ish: OTP

At quick glance, looks like https://github.com/mstrand/xcat uses same key repeatedly, as needed, to cover length of that to be XORed, whereas mine is intended for OTP, where key is at least as long as the data to be XORed (and presumably key is truly random and never reused with any other data (other than decrypting the one message it had encrypted).

There are other differences too, but that's probably the most noteworthy difference.

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PepperedPep@reddit

The Lounge

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overratedcupcake@reddit

You should ask in /r/limuxadmin