Ansible Satellite 6 Install

Role to install and do basic configuration of Red Hat Satellite 6.X.

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.

• Disk Partitioning to support Satellite Directories. Refer to installation guide.
• DNS
• NTP
• satellite_deployment_manifest_path variable defined
• Satellite Manifest file is hosted on the Ansible Bastion or available via HTTP or FTP somewhere in the environment.

Role Variables

All variables are in files located in defaults/main.yml

Dependencies

There is no role dependency for this role.

Inventory File

The example of inventory file for this role is in hosts.target.

How to run the playbook

• 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"

** Then update the variable file in defaults/main.yml in your playbook and set all mandatory variables for role.:

You can see example of playbook in playbook_example/config.yml

• cd playbook_example
• ansible-playbook -i hosts.target -e '{satellite_deployment_vars: ./vars/main.yml}' config.yml
• Run the playbook, see README of example playbook

playbook readme

License

MIT

Author Information

Julio Villarreal Pelegrino [email protected] more at: http://wwww.juliovillarreal.com

Contributors:

Petr Balogh - [email protected]

Joe Pisciotta - [email protected]

Nick Poyant - [email protected]

Cameron Wyatt - [email protected]