install_satellite

Ansible collection for installing and tuning satellite. Updated for Red Hat Satellite 6.8.

This collection is also available on ansible galaxy.

Overview

This collection takes a RHEL7 host and installs satellite. It follows these steps:

• Configure repositories
• Remove RPMs that conflict with satellite RPMs
• Installs satellite RPMs
• Run the satellite installer
• Applies the specified tuning profile

Notes

• For satelliute 6.10, you may need to quote the version (satellite.version: '6.10') to ensure Ansible doesn't drop the tailing 0

Usage

The best way to consume this collection is to set up a requirements.yml:

---
collections:
  - jjaswanson4.install_satellite

The collection can also be installed from the command line ad-hoc:

ansible-galaxy collection install jjaswanson4.install_satellite

Examples

• There are example playbooks located in the playbooks directory
• Vars examples can be found in playbooks/vars

Vars

All vars are defined under satellite. There are a few required vars:

Name	Description
version	The version of satellite to install. Any supported version is supported, as well as beta for beta releases
admin_username	The admin username for satellite
admin_password	The admin password for satellite

In addition, the initial organization and location need to be defined under satellite.foreman. See below for the full structure. Finally, be sure to include the tuning_config_files list, shown below.

satellite:
  version: '6.8'
  admin_username: admin
  admin_password: changeme
  tuning_profile: medium
  foreman:
    organizations:
      - name: general
        initial_organization: true # Required to be defined and set to true
      - name: josh
    locations:
      - name: josh1
        organizations:
          - name: josh
      - name: josh2
        organizations:
          - name: josh
          - name: general
      - name: msp-lab
        initial_location: true # Required to be defined and set to true
        organizations:
          - name: general
      - name: msp-lab2
        organizations:
          - name: josh
          - name: general

Inventory Structure

This collection targets satellite servers, however it's a good idea to break up satellite/capsule servers and define var files for each individually:

[satellite]
satellite67.josh.lab.msp.redhat.com vars_file=/home/jswanson/ansible/satellite6.7-collections/satellite67.josh.lab.msp.redhat.com.vars.yml ansible_user=root

[capsule]
capsule67-01.josh.lab.msp.redhat.com vars_file=/home/jswanson/ansible/satellite6.7-collections/capsule67-01.josh.lab.msp.redhat.com.vars.yml ansible_user=root
capsule67-02.josh.lab.msp.redhat.com vars_file=/home/jswanson/ansible/satellite6.7-collections/capsule67-02.josh.lab.msp.redhat.com.vars.yml ansible_user=root