Red Hat Products Content Views

NOTICE: This is actively being cleaned up. Some things are missing

This repo contains some bash scripting wrapper around the hammer command to create content vies for Red Hat products. Content views are created for base products such as Red Hat enterprise Linux Server and Glusterfs. Then composite content views are created to include products that depend on each other. For example, Glusterfs depends on RHEL, so the corresponding content view consists of both the RHEL and glusterfs content view. The corresponding activation keys are also created, one for each life cycle environment. In addition, the subscriptions are also attached to the activation keys.

Allot of this is based on the 10 Steps to Build an SOE: How Red Hat Satellite 6 Supports Setting up a Standard Operating Environment.

Recent Updates

• rhel7_content should work as expected when executed as `populate_satellite.sh rhel7_content
• ansible_content: creates a CV for Ansible Engine, no actiavation keys
• rhv4u2_content: creates a content for with all RHV repo sets
• rhvm4u2 - creates a compositive content view with activaiton keys and subscriptions for RHVM

Usage

For now, make sure all the content views are created before you create products that are composite views. At some point I will update the script to do this in one shot.

• The populate_satellite.sh file is the main script.
• The hammer_helper_functions file contains all the functions that are source by populate_satellite.sh.
• The products contains the configuration file for each product content view or composite content view.

Get Started

1. Clone this repo to your Satellite server
2. Setup hammer to connect to Satellite without being promoted for username and password
3. Edit the product config file, for example products/rhv_content
4. Run it populate_satellite.sh products/rhv_content

Disclaimer

All this work is the result my role a Solutions Architect to be able to quickly stand up a Satellite server. Please take the time to adopt it to your environment and needs, any feedback is always welcome. Probable the most important info here is the names of the repository_sets and repos that you need to enable in Satellite for each product.

Products Covered

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
• Red Hat Ansible Engine
• Red Hat Gluster Storage
• Red Hat Virtualization
• JBoss Enterprise Application Platform

References

• dirkherrmann/soe-reference-architecture
• dmoessne/if-I-had-a-hammer
• shetze/hammer-scripts
• theforeman/foreman_ansible_inventory