Yes and no.  Puppet (actually Salt) will be set up in the environment to handle 
things like provisioning software and configuring build environments.  However, 
 it’s not set up yet and I would like to try and avoid too many chains of tools 
relying on each other.  In the perfect world, I would like to get the SW and 
Puppet/Salt client installations to happen automatically without using one or 
the other to help get them set up, that way the two can operate independently.  
If all else fails I’ll go that route but I want to avoid it for now.  

 

From: [email protected] 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Thomas Foster
Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2014 4:24 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Automatically Registering VM Clones as SPacewalk 
Clients

 

Are you using puppet?

 

On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 4:16 PM, Glennie, Jonathan - 0443 - MITLL 
<[email protected]> wrote:

Hello All-

 

My apologies if this has been covered somewhere before, but I’m trying to 
determine the best method of automating spacewalk client registration in a 
virtual environment and surprisingly enough I haven’t found much.  Right now, 
we are using VMware CentOS 6 templates as base images for client machines.  We 
have a handful of scripts set up to automate other tasks such as hostname/IP 
changes, but I’m not sure the best way to handle spacewalk registration.  Has 
anyone set this up before that may have some experiences to share? 

 

I don’t think we want to go down the road of using kickstart as most of the 
configuration we need is already done on the template, unless there is a 
“light” way of using it to run simple post install scripts?  And I’m pretty 
sure we can’t register the template to spacewalk otherwise we would have to 
deal with duplicate systems showing up in the inventory, or at least I think we 
would.  I’m leaning towards using a template with the necessary packages 
installed but not registered to spacewalk, with a script in rc.local which will 
check to see if the machine is registered to spacewalk (not sure how yet) and 
then run the rhnreg command if not.  Thoughts anyone?

 

Thanks in advance,

-Jon

 


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