BKR-SYSTEM-RESERVE(1)

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version 29.2 · 3 versions
, in epel 9

💅 BKR-SYSTEM-RESERVE(1) — the Beaker manual, section 1, bestie ✨

okay so this is bkr-system-reserve, straight out of the Beaker manual (section 1 if ur keeping track 🎀). it does exactly one thing and it does it well: it manually reserves a Beaker system for you. no scheduler, no waiting in the queue like a loser — just you, your fave fqdn, and a system that's now yours. 💖

✨ NAME ✨

bkr-system-reserve — Manually reserve a Beaker system 🫶

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

bkr system-reserve [options] <fqdn>

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Reserves a Beaker system. periodt. 💅

ok but here's the vibe check before you get too excited — the system must have its status set to Manual, and it has to be free for use by the current user. no cap, if those two things aren't true, this is not happening for you 😭

and like, if you wanted to reserve a system using the Beaker scheduler instead? that's a whole different thing — you submit a job using the Beaker web UI or a workflow command (such as bkr workflow-simple). different door, same building, iykyk 🧚

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

the common bkr options? those are described in the Options section of bkr(1). go read that bestie, it's giving essential. 👑

⭐ EXIT STATUS ⭐

  • Non-zero on error 😭
  • otherwise zero 💚

that's it. that's the whole personality.

🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

ok this is the iconic part — reserve a particular system, provision it, do some work on it, and then release it. the full main character arc, start to finish 👑

bkr system-reserve system1.example.invalid
bkr system-provision --kernel-opts "nogpt" \
                     --distro-tree 12345 \
                     system1.example.invalid
# do some work on the system
bkr system-release system1.example.invalid

look at that flow. reserve → provision → do some work on the system → release. genuinely obsessed. 🔥

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

🙈 AUTHOR 🙈

The Beaker team <beaker-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org> 🫶

2013-2025 Red Hat, Inc.

and that's the whole page, bestie 💖 this was bkr-system-reserve(1) from the Beaker 29.2 manual, dated May 26, 2025 — go reserve something cute and don't forget to release it after 🌸✨🎀

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