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Reprovisioning bare metal Linux servers with Foreman and IPMI
Recently we had to reprovision a bare metal server that was in Foreman and had IPMI support. The goal was to check if our automated “force-join to FreeIPA domain after reprovisioning” logic worked as intented. We did not have access to any graphical IPMI console, nor Foreman’s GUI, so we had to do everything from the command-line. The host we reprovisioned was a CentOS 7 instance. It is assumed that IPMI tools are installed. This post was inspired by the Automate SuperMicro Server Provisioning or Die Trying blog post.