Mass installation of ubuntu servers

[b0nehead]

Hi All,
I need to be able to rapidly deploy Ubuntu VMs for testing. Using Redhat Enterprise or Centos/Scientific I'd use Kickstart and Satellite/Spacewalk. It seems that Ubuntu only has limited Kickstart support, and their Spacewalk equivalent is Landscape (a paid for service), which has no free alternative.

Can anyone recommend any Ubuntu deployment/management tools? Am I missing something obvious?

Cheers...

b0nehead

[Lars Noodén]

You should still be able to use Kickstart. You can also use the more advanced, but harder, Debian installer preseed.

http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Preseed

Also, rather than burning a new disc image for each try, you can burn one that uses HTTP or Anonymous FTP to point to a file on your server. That way during testing all you have to do is edit the one file to make changes.