OVH custom iPXE boot (dedicated server)

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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 OK

2. Request your custom bootId

GET /1.0/dedicated/server/ns320309.ip-46-105-117.eu/boot?bootType=ipxeCustomerScript HTTP/1.1

HTTP/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

4. Reboot your server !