Reinstalling/recreating a legacy Uyuni-Server build (pre 2024.10) without containers (podman/k8s)

[rhar78]

Question

What do you want to know about Uyuni?
We have build Uyuni prior to 2024.10 and been using it stably for some time.

In case of catastrophic event we would like to know what installations steps (and repositories) we need to use in order recreate our instance of Uyuni-Server (like for like). Our currently Uyuni-Server is running on SUSE Leap 15.5 (more detail below) and therefore not using containers (podman/k8s).

So would it be possible to tell us:

1. What are the manual steps for re-installing Uyuni-Server on Leap prior to 2024-10 (ideally for 2024.07 or the nearest stable release)?
2. What repository should we use for this? (the latest repositories referenced in documentation refer to containers/mgradm however we used zypper/yast2 for build and configuration)

Please let me know if you need further details. Thanks.

Version of Uyuni Server and Proxy (if used)

zypper info Uyuni-Server-release and zypper info Uyuni-Proxy-release (if used)

# zypper info Uyuni-Server-release
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...


Information for package Uyuni-Server-release:
---------------------------------------------
Repository     : @System
Name           : Uyuni-Server-release
Version        : 2024.07-230900.219.1.uyuni3
Arch           : x86_64
Vendor         : obs://build.opensuse.org/systemsmanagement:Uyuni
Installed Size : 1.4 KiB
Installed      : Yes
Status         : up-to-date
Source package : Uyuni-Server-release-2024.07-230900.219.1.uyuni3.src
Upstream URL   : https://www.uyuni-project.org/
Summary        : Uyuni Server
Description    :
    Uyuni lets you efficiently manage physical, virtual,
    and cloud-based Linux systems. It provides automated and cost-effective
    configuration and software management, asset management, and system
    provisioning.

# zypper search -s Uyuni-Server
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
S  | Name                 | Type    | Version                     | Arch   | Repository
---+----------------------+---------+-----------------------------+--------+--------------------
i+ | Uyuni-Server         | product | 2024.07-0                   | x86_64 | (System Packages)
v  | Uyuni-Server         | product | 2024.10-0                   | x86_64 | Uyuni Server Stable
i+ | Uyuni-Server-release | package | 2024.07-230900.219.1.uyuni3 | x86_64 | (System Packages)
v  | Uyuni-Server-release | package | 2024.10-241000.224.1.uyuni5 | x86_64 | Uyuni Server Stable

# uname -a
Linux uyuni01 5.14.21-150500.55.83-default #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Wed Oct 2 08:09:07 UTC 2024 (0d53847) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

# cat /etc/os-release
NAME="openSUSE Leap"
VERSION="15.5"
ID="opensuse-leap"
ID_LIKE="suse opensuse"
VERSION_ID="15.5"
PRETTY_NAME="openSUSE Leap 15.5"
ANSI_COLOR="0;32"
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:opensuse:leap:15.5"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.opensuse.org"
HOME_URL="https://www.opensuse.org/"
DOCUMENTATION_URL="https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Leap"
LOGO="distributor-logo-Leap"

[stdevel]

Hi rhar78, you can use point release URLs when installing a new server, in your case this would be: https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/Uyuni:/Snapshots:/2024.07/images/

I'm using this mechanism for developing the Uyuni Ansible Collection, that also can simply recreate an old release:

---
- hosts: retro.giertz.loc
  remote_user: root
  roles:
    - role: stdevel.uyuni.server
      uyuni_release: '2024.07'

[rhar78]

Awesome. This is very helpful. Thankyou.