A new page describes the ipxe and xnba netboot methods: the files of the
upstream loader, UEFI Secure Boot through the shim and its limits, the
client test, the loader of nodes without a definition, the move of
nodes to the ipxe method and back, and the known limits of the upstream
loader.
The node guide, the noderes, node, group and nodeset pages list the ipxe
method, and the value lists mark xnba deprecated. The examples that
define an x86 node use netboot=ipxe. The mixed cluster and uninstall
guides name ipxe-xcat, and the DHCP validation matrix gets the iPXE
loader rows, Secure Boot included.
Docker container lifecycle management (mgt=docker, mkdocker, rmdocker,
lsdocker) was added in 2015-2016 as an experiment targeting Docker API
v1.22 on Ubuntu only. Documentation and man pages were deliberately
removed in 2019 (PRs #6222 and #6324) with the original developer's
approval, noting that "the interface of Docker has become very simple
right now, so there is no value for xCAT to offer such functions."
The plugin was still being shipped but has had no functional code changes
since April 2016, was never listed as a valid mgt value in Schema.pm,
and no user ever filed an issue about it.
Removed:
- xCAT-server/lib/xcat/plugins/docker.pm (1,142 lines)
- xCAT/postscripts/setupdockerhost
- xCAT-server/share/xcat/scripts/setup-dockerhost-cert.sh
- xCAT-test/autotest/testcase/dockercommand/ (test cases)
- Docker attribute definitions in Schema.pm
- Client symlinks (mkdocker, rmdocker, lsdocker)
- Usage entries and dockerhost cert handling in credentials.pm
- Docker attribute documentation in man7 pages
The "Running xCAT in Docker" documentation (dockerized_xcat/) is
retained as it documents containerizing xCAT itself, not the removed
mgt=docker feature.
Closes#7518
* No content in the switches subdirectory in docs, remove
* Change the Network topic to Networking
* Refine and reformat the Cumulus Linux documentation
- categorize into topics without "xCAT" in the heading
since the topics are all related to xCAT
- Alphabetize the topics to make it easier to find
- create sub directories for the topics to contain
the documentation
- broke down some of the docs to multiple files to help
ease of readability
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