iPXE customer script (BETA)
Booting your server with your own iPXE script allows cool things like:
- running diskless bare-metal system like CoreOS, SmartOS, ...
- recovering with your own Rescue system or bare-metal restore tools (like Acronis and Idera)
- launching Standard installer like ESXi, Linux, Solaris, ...
How? Using directly the RESTful API EU|CA or the API console EU|CA.
It's also working for Kimsufi EU|CA and SoYouStart EU|CA.
1. Upload your custom iPXE script
CoreOS example (https://coreos.com/docs/running-coreos/bare-metal/booting-with-ipxe/)
POST /1.0/me/ipxeScript HTTP/1.1
{
"description": "CoreOS stable",
"name": "coreos",
"script": "#!ipxe\n\nset base-url http://stable.release.core-os.net/amd64-usr/current\nkernel ${base-url}/coreos_production_pxe.vmlinuz sshkey=\"ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAAAYQC2PxAKTLdczK9+RNsGGPsz0eC2pBlydBEcrbI7LSfiN7Bo5hQQVjki+Xpnp8EEYKpzu6eakL8MJj3E28wT/vNklT1KyMZrXnVhtsmOtBKKG/++odpaavdW2/AU0l7RZiE= coreos pxe demo\"\ninitrd ${base-url}/coreos_production_pxe_image.cpio.gz\nboot"
}HTTP/1.1 200 OK2. Request your custom bootId
GET /1.0/dedicated/server/ns320309.ip-46-105-117.eu/boot?bootType=ipxeCustomerScript HTTP/1.1HTTP/1.1 200 OK
[
38
]3. Configure your server to boot on your iPXE script
PUT /1.0/dedicated/server/ns320309.ip-46-105-117.eu HTTP/1.1
{
"bootId": 38
}HTTP/1.1 200 OK