https://attheedge.dev/tags/provisioning/Recent content in Provisioning on At the EdgeHugoen-usTue, 10 Nov 2026 10:00:00 +0100https://attheedge.dev/post/provisioning-edge-servers-with-pxe/Tue, 10 Nov 2026 10:00:00 +0100https://attheedge.dev/post/provisioning-edge-servers-with-pxe/<p>A new robot on the bench has an empty disk. It has no name and no operating system, so the fleet can&rsquo;t reach it. Someone has to put an image on it, and every way of doing that by hand leaves the result depending on who stood at the machine.</p> <p>In the field I see three answers. Someone types a hostname at an installer prompt. Someone keeps a user-data file per box. Someone builds a USB image per site and carries it over. In all three, the person at the machine decides, and nothing reviewable records it.</p>