Based on our record, FAI seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 11 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
Take a look at Debian's documentation on automatic installation using FAI or the Debian installer - more details on these and other apporoaches in The Debian Administrator's Handbook. Source: over 1 year ago
Fully Automated Installation, which I literally just found. Source: over 1 year ago
For network-based Ubuntu installs in our environment FAI has been a great solution. Source: about 2 years ago
Bare metal install with FAI (after getting used to it, it is really quiet fast and adjustable) after initial reboot config management is handed over to salt with a highstate (i.e. Full config run) on boot-up. Source: about 2 years ago
Not exactly an answer to your question but I’ve used FAI (https://fai-project.org) to just make dynamic images. The scripting is a bitch and the entire process is annoying, but you have control over every step of the install, the final product is an image you can install even over NetBoot and fully automatic. Source: over 2 years ago
Jenkins - Jenkins is an open-source continuous integration server with 300+ plugins to support all kinds of software development
Cobbler - Cobbler is a Linux installation server that allows for rapid setup of network installation...
CircleCI - CircleCI gives web developers powerful Continuous Integration and Deployment with easy setup and maintenance.
Ansible - Radically simple configuration-management, application deployment, task-execution, and multi-node orchestration engine
Travis CI - Focus on writing code. Let Travis CI take care of running your tests and deploying your apps.
Python Fabric - Fabric is a Python library and command-line tool for streamlining the use of SSH for application...