If you’re doing a large deployment, odds are you’ll have to update some machines on the fly. Its often easier and faster to reimage than do over-the-wire updates. In addition, if you need to redeploy a machine to a different cluster, currently the only way to do that is reimage.
If you have a collection of ISOs (like so many of us do), but get tired of making USB sticks all the time, and don’t want to fool with something like Ventoy, there is a Korean company called IODD that makes a drive that acts as a “Virtual Optical Disc Drive”. The Scale HCOS ISOs work MARVELOUSLY with this product line, and are a must-have for any technician’s bag.
