Role to install and do basic configuration of Red Hat Satellite 6.X. Really, it handles Satellite Server 6.3 and probably up.
This role started off as Julio Villareal Pelegrino's role [email protected] but there are quite a few changes made to accommodate Red Hat Satellite Server on EC2.
This playbook will take a while to run depending the number of repositories to sync.
You will need ansible and all the required subscriptions for RHEL 7 and Satellite 6. Use ansible-galaxy to install the following playbooks:
- bennojoy.ntp
- zaxos.lvm-ansible-role
See the playbook-examples/requirements.yml file for an ansible-galaxy manifest.
You will need a subscription manifest that matches the version of Red Hat Satellite Server you plan to install before getting started.
Base variables are in files located in ./vars and are imported with specifics tasks. These variables can be overwritten via an extra vars parameter like this:
HOSTGROUP=satellite-server ansible-playbook -c local -i hosts -e '{satellite_deployment_vars: vars/local-vars.yml}' config.yml
In this example, config.yml is the "run list" for ansible-playbook to follow, and vars/local-vars.yml is the list of variables that override settings in vars/main.yml. See the playbook_example folder for the files you need to pass to ansible-galaxy and ansible-playbook.
Tags can be run with --include-tags or skipped with --skip-tags. Tags are:
| Tag | Purpose |
|---|---|
| backup | Set up a nightly backup script that copies data to Amazon S3. |
| capsule | Set up a Satellite Capsule server (completely untested as of now) |
| publish_content | Promote content-views of the content lifecycle |
| enable_repos | Enable redhat repos for satellite server to mirror |
| sync | Synchronize repos from Red Hat |
| Configure e-mail relaying and a daily report of host check-ins | |
| install_satellite | For some reason you may want to skip installing satellite |
| install_software | For some reason you may want to skip installing additional software (utiliites) |
| rhn | register the system with RHN |
There is no role dependency for this role.
- To run the playbook first you need to create and download the manifest:
Go to http://rhn.redhat.com.
- Click "Satellite"
- Click "Register a Satellite"
- Set a Name, select a version and Click "Register" After this we are going to attach a subscription.
- Click "Attach Subscription" and select the subscription to attach and click "Attach Selected" After this we will download the manifest.
- Click "Download manifest" After this copy the download file inside the /files directory on the role and name it "satellite_manifest.zip"
TASK [satellite-deployment : RHN | subscribing to the right pool]
- Remove the system from its attached subscription to redhat satellite, in the customer portal.
MIT
Julio Villarreal Pelegrino [email protected] more at: http://wwww.juliovillarreal.com
Contributors:
- Petr Balogh - [email protected]
- Me :)