Ansible Satellite 6 Install
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 julio@linux.com but there are quite a few changes made to accommodate Red Hat Satellite Server on EC2.
INFORMATION
This playbook will take a while to run depending the number of repositories to sync.
Requirements
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.
Role Variables
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
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 |
Dependencies
There is no role dependency for this role.
Register with Red Hat
- 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"
Problems
TASK [satellite-deployment : RHN | subscribing to the right pool]
- Remove the system from its attached subscription to redhat satellite, in the customer portal.
License
MIT
Author Information
Julio Villarreal Pelegrino julio@linux.com more at: http://wwww.juliovillarreal.com
Contributors:
- Petr Balogh - petr.balogh@gmail.com
- Me :)