We've got a PXE setup that uses the automated install. If I don't include certs, I can add them manually after the cluster's been built, but if I try to do it during setup, the other nodes can't validate the certs.

I was just curious cause I had to manually build an ISO to get grub to work. Otherwise the ISO dumps me into a grub shell. For PXE how easy is it to configure a large amount of nodes. I looked over the docs but the process of using a custom config file for each different node seemed opaque to me.

Oh, yup. That's the tricky bit. Some of our nodes have different NIC or disk setups, and all of that needs to be handled in the config files correctly. Right now we're using chef to generate the install configs, but that bit is ripe to be extracted to an external service.

That's part of my problem as well. Each node has multiple NICs and they run on different networks. Getting the install to work correctly with all the networks has been manual. That's more of our fault though. I'm sure PXE and a better understanding of Harvester could automate it but for now we're slow and steady

PXE has been great. It's a slippery slope down into stuff like https://tinkerbell.org/, once you start solving problems like centralized provisioning/management/etc. 😂

we are trying to do something similar.. https://github.com/harvester/seeder