gobootme

While this software heavily focuses on Raspberry Pis (especially for the compute-blade), it also boots AMD64 machines. They are just easier and have less quirks. Disclaimer: works, but test coverage is lacking!

Bringing Raspberry Pis from zero to iPXE pointing to e.g. matchbox in seconds.

It acts as ProxyDHCP server to provide boot information to the Pis, and then it serves the iPXE boot script to the Pis.

Requirements/Assumptions

• DHCP server without PXE booting configured
• Privileged execution

Recommendations

While this software tries to boot the Pis from zero, it's recommended to use the UEFI firmware for the most reliable booting experience.

Configuration

• LOG_LEVEL: Log level (default: info)
• LOG_MODE: Log mode (default: console)
• IPXE_BOOT_ENDPOINT_AUTO: Expect matchbox running on the same host (default: true)
• IPXE_BOOT_ENDPOINT: custom iPXE boot script endpoint (only used if IPXE_BOOT_ENDPOINT_AUTO is false)
• ENABLE_PROXY_DHCP: Enable proxy DHCP server (default: true)
• PROXY_DHCP_INTERFACE: Interface to listen for bootp requests (default: eth0)

Example runtime

e.g. bringing up matchbox and gobootme in docker-compose

version: '3.8'

services:
  gobootme:
    image: ghcr.io/xvzf/gobootme:latest
    container_name: gobootme
    restart: unless-stopped
    network_mode: host
    environment:
      - LOG_LEVEL=info
      - LOG_MODE=json
      - IPXE_BOOT_ENDPOINT_AUTO=true
      - ENABLE_PROXY_DHCP=true
      - PROXY_DHCP_INTERFACE=eth0

  matchbox:
    image: quay.io/poseidon/matchbox:latest
    container_name: matchbox
    restart: unless-stopped
    args:
      - -address=0.0.0.0:8080
      - -log-level=debug
    volumes:
      - ./matchbox/assets:/var/lib/matchbox/assets
      - ./matchbox/data:/var/lib/matchbox/data
      - ./matchbox/rules:/var/lib/matchbox/rules
    ports:
      - "8080:8080"  # Example port mapping, adjust as needed