Installing WALT: the server

I recently received new equipment for setting up 4 new WALT mini-platforms, for use by trainees or for making a demo of WALT at Kaizen Solutions. The first thing to do is to install the WALT server component, and this will be the topic of this blog entry. The next blog post (february 2025) will show how to connect other equipment (switches and Raspberry Pi nodes) to the platform. This blog post more or less follows the documentation page for WALT server installation. ...

January 1, 2025 · 7 min

Network bootable containers

This first blog entry presents an important underlying concept of WALT. I remember quite well the discussion we had about this topic, Franck and I, in the cafeteria of the ENSIMAG D building… It was by the end of 2014. The design of WALT: a short summary In 2014, the WALT project was already 2 years old, and we1 had designed a first prototype. After that, we knew quite well what the challenges were, and I was then redesigning the whole thing. ...

December 1, 2024 · 6 min