PXE booting over the internet to ThinLinc

I recently got my PXE boot machines to boot over the internet to a VM hosted offsite. Once the boot image is loaded you can then connect to ThinLinc which is also hosted in a VM offsite. This allows me to have no hard drives on premises which is better for security and maintenance.

I did a talk at my local linux group (MLUG) here are the notes if anyone is interested;
pxe_boot_over_internet.pdf

I just read Oetiker’s dbrrg and that looks really interesting and maybe I could use that instead of LTSP in my solution. I look forward to more discussions on how to make booting PXE clients to interact with ThinLinc easier and with less hardware onsite.

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@tobias.oetiker @j.maus

@map7 let me know if you have any questions …

I couldn’t get this to run. Do u have to have two machines for this or vm’s one for ipxe? And the other for the docker script?