Foreman: Publishing and Promoting Content Views Using Hammer

In this blog post, I’m going to practice publishing and promoting content views using the hammer CLI. I already know how to do this using the Satellite/Foreman web UI. First, I’m going to create the Base content view for Operations organization and Boston location. [root@foreman ~]# hammer content-view create \ > --name Base --organization Operations \ > --description 'Base Packages' Content view created. [root@foreman ~]# hammer content-view list --organization Operations ----------------|---------------------------|--------------------------|-----------|---------------------|--------------- CONTENT VIEW ID | NAME | LABEL | COMPOSITE | LAST PUBLISHED | REPOSITORY IDS ----------------|---------------------------|--------------------------|-----------|---------------------|--------------- 6 | Base | Base | false | | ----------------|---------------------------|--------------------------|-----------|---------------------|--------------- The next step is adding the repos to the content view....

March 7, 2021 · 6 min · 1259 words · kenno

Foreman: Creating Software Life-Cycles Using Hammer

In this post, I will create a new life-cycle environment paths for the Operations organization that includes life-cycle environments named Deveopment, QA, and Production. Let’s list the current life-cycle environment for Operations organization. [root@foreman ~]# hammer lifecycle-environment list --organization Operations ---|---------|------ ID | NAME | PRIOR ---|---------|------ 6 | Library | ---|---------|------ When we create our first environment, we’ll need to use the ID of the Library, which is 6 in this case....

March 7, 2021 · 2 min · 290 words · kenno

Foreman: Creating Product & Repository Using Hammer

In this blog post, I’m going to show how to add a new product caled EPEL8 and populate it with a repository from EPEL 8. There should be 3 main steps: Create a Content-Credentials which stores the package signing key of the product or repository Create a new Product Create a new Repository Firt thing first, let’s create a new content-credentials named RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-8 with the contents from the EPEL 8’s GPG signing key....

March 7, 2021 · 4 min · 691 words · kenno

Foreman: Creating Organization & Location With Hammer

Let’s learn how to create an organization and location on Foreman/Satellite server using the hammer command-line-interface. In this example, I’m going to create an organization called: Operation and assign its location to Boston. On the Foreman server, excute the following commands: [root@foreman ~]# hammer organization create --name Operations Organization created. [root@foreman ~]# hammer location create --name Boston Location created. [root@foreman ~]# hammer organization add-location --name Operations \ > --location Boston The location has been associated....

March 7, 2021 · 1 min · 188 words · kenno

Enable Foreman Ansible Plugin

When I setup Foreman (Satellite) server, I didn’t have Ansible support enabled. Here is how it can be done later on. If we only need Ansible support, it’s sufficient to just run this command: # foreman-installer \ --enable-foreman-plugin-ansible \ --enable-foreman-proxy-plugin-ansible Just a note for myself, I also need Remote Execution enabled if I want to run Ansible playbooks as Job Templates. # foreman-installer \ --enable-foreman-plugin-remote-execution \ --enable-foreman-proxy-plugin-remote-execution-ssh Note that the remote execution feature is enabled by default on Foreman/Satellite server....

March 6, 2021 · 1 min · 102 words · kenno