FOG Project on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

Overview

FOG Project is a free, open source network cloning and imaging solution. You capture a disk image from a single reference machine, store it centrally, and then deploy that image to as many machines as you need over the network, driven by a network boot rather than by anyone carrying media from desk to desk. A browser based console is the whole workflow: register machines, group them, define images, schedule capture and deployment tasks, and watch progress as they run.

Around that core it adds the inventory and management work that usually surrounds imaging. It keeps a hardware inventory of every machine that has checked in, tracks which image each one is running, and can push snapins, small packaged tasks that install software or apply a change to a group of machines after they have been imaged. It suits IT teams who rebuild and reprovision fleets of desktops and laptops regularly: school and university labs, hospital and clinical workstations, call centres, and any environment where a standard build has to be reapplied consistently and often.

Common uses

• Rebuilding and reprovisioning fleets of desktops and laptops from a standard image
• Central capture and storage of golden images with a browser based console
• Hardware inventory and post imaging software deployment across machine groups

See it running

Real screenshots taken while testing this image against its deployment guide.