slaanesh/system-management
Project ID: 27309
Description
System management with Foreman
This project is unmaintained, as my frustrations with Foreman reached a critical level!
This project contains all the packages scattered around for managing CentOS and Fedora clients in Foreman. This is due to the fact that the components here are dispersed among different repositories, are not on par with each other regarding versions across distributions and are all not available for the supported client distributions in Foreman.
Required packages
The clients enrolled in Foreman require various packages. The table listed below shows the minimum source packages that need to be built for a client to succesfully enroll in Foreman and where do they come from. A -
symbol means it's either not required or already available in the main repositories of the distribution.
CentOS Stream variations are the same as the basic version.
The yum/dnf-plugin-proxy
is to use repositories from Foreman/Katello or Satellite along with:
- External repositories that are only reachable by proxy
- Specific settings for the
no_proxy
addresses (not supported by normalyum/dnf
proxy configuration - Blacklisted repositories that have been mirrored in-house (such as those installed with
centos-linux-release
)
| Source package | CentOS 6 | CentOS 7 | CentOS 8 | Fedora |
|-----------------------------|-----------------|-----------------------|-----------------|----------------|
| katello-host-tools | Foreman Client | Custom | Custom | Custom |
| rubygem-foreman_scap_client | Foreman Client | Foreman Client | Foreman Client | Foreman Client |
| gofer | Satellite tools | Satellite tools | Satellite tools | - |
| tracer | - | Foreman Client / EPEL | Foreman Client | - |
| subscription-manager | RHEL | - | - | - |
| pulp | Satellite tools | - | - | - |
| pulp-rpm | Satellite tools | - | - | - |
| python-isodate | Satellite tools | - | - | - |
| dnf-plugin-proxy | - | - | Custom | Custom |
| yum-plugin-proxy | - | Custom | - | - |
These are the source repositories listed above:
- RHEL 6
- RHEL 6 - Satellite Tools
- RHEL 7 - Satellite Tools
- RHEL 8 - Satellite Tools
- RHEL 6 - Foreman Client
- RHEL 7/8 & Fedora - Custom katello-host-tools
- RHEL 7 & Fedora - Custom yum-plugin-proxy
- RHEL 8 & Fedora - Custom dnf-plugin-proxy
Summing up, the source packages that are being built as part of this (depending on the distribution the version might be different) are:
subscription-manager
- el6pulp
- el6pulp-rpm
- el6python-isodate
- el6gofer
- el6, el7, el8katello-host-tools
- el6, el7, el8, fc32, fc33rubygem-foreman_scap_client
- el6, el7, el8, fc32, fc33tracer
- el7 (so you don't need EPEL), el8dnf-plugin-proxy
- el8, fc32, fc33yum-plugin-proxy
- el7
The katello-host-tools
is custom as it is without the agent and a simpler SPEC file on anything CentOS 7 and up.
Supported distributions
These are the supported distributions:
- RHEL 6 and derivatives
- RHEL 7 and derivatives
- RHEL 8 and derivatives
- CentOS Stream 8
- Fedora 32
- Fedora 33
- Fedora 34
Note on RHEL 6 and derivatives: no new packages will be built from now on as the distribution is End of Life.
Installation Instructions
Instructions as in the Foreman manual:
- Inside a Product in Foreman, create a repository that is syncing from this COPR repository.
- When registering the client, install
subscription-manager
,subscription-manager-rhsm
andsubscription-manager-rhsm-certificates
. - Register the system as per instruction, with
subscription-manager register
or an activation key. - Now you have two options for the client part:
- With agent: install
katello-agent
and start the servicegoferd
. - Agentless: install
katello-host-tools
in CentOS/RHEL 6 orkatello-host-tools-tracer
in CentOS/RHEL 7+ and Fedora.
Active Releases
The following unofficial repositories are provided as-is by owner of this project. Contact the owner directly for bugs or issues (IE: not bugzilla).
Release | Architectures | Repo Download |
---|---|---|
Centos-stream 8 | aarch64 (71)*, x86_64 (102)* | Centos-stream 8 (111 downloads) |
EPEL 6 | i386 (136)*, x86_64 (141)* | EPEL 6 (0 downloads) |
EPEL 7 | x86_64 (260)* | EPEL 7 (149 downloads) |
EPEL 8 | aarch64 (119)*, x86_64 (238)* | EPEL 8 (162 downloads) |
* Total number of downloaded packages.