setup_rhel_for_satellite

Ansible collection for validating a RHEL host to run satellite.

This collection is also available on ansible galaxy.

Overview

This collection will validate a RHEL7 host against the system requirements and storage requirements for running satellite.

If a system passes validation, LVM will be configured according to the following procedure:

• LVs will be created
• The LVs will get an XFS filesystem
• The LVs will be added to /etc/fstab

• Note: for now, the LVs will be on the same volume group as /var. There is an issue open on github about this.

Usage

The best way to consume this collection is to set up a requirements.yml:

---
collections:
  - jjaswanson4.setup_rhel_for_satellite

The collection can also be installed from the command line ad-hoc:

ansible-galaxy collection install jjaswanson4.setup_rhel_for_satellite

Examples

• There are example playbooks located in playbooks directory
• Vars examples can be found in playbooks/vars

Vars

satellite:
  version: 6.7
  admin_username: admin
  admin_password: changeme
  logical_volumes:
    - name: cache # The name of the LV
      size: 20 # Size in GB
      path: /var/cache/pulp # Mount path
    - name: pulp
      size: 300
      path: /var/lib/pulp
    - name: mongodb
      size: 50
      path: /var/lib/mongodb
    - name: qpidd
      size: 20
      path: /var/lib/qpidd
    - name: varlog
      size: 10
      path: /var/log
    - name: pqsql
      size: 25
      path: /var/lib/pgsql
    - name: squid
      size: 10
      path: /var/spool/squid
    - name: usr
      size: 8
      path: /usr
    - name: opt
      size: 8
      path: /opt
    - name: puppetlabs
      size: 1
      path: /opt/puppetlabs
    - name: var
      size: 12
      path: /var

Inventory Structure

For this collection, it doesn't matter if you're building a satellite server or a capsule server, the LVs will be collected and created. It's a good idea to break out satellite servers vs. capsule servers and specify their var files so each will be built according to their own specifications:

[satellite]
satellite67.josh.lab.msp.redhat.com vars_file=/home/jswanson/ansible/satellite6.7-collections/satellite67.josh.lab.msp.redhat.com.vars.yml ansible_user=root

[capsule]
capsule67-01.josh.lab.msp.redhat.com vars_file=/home/jswanson/ansible/satellite6.7-collections/capsule67-01.josh.lab.msp.redhat.com.vars.yml ansible_user=root
capsule67-02.josh.lab.msp.redhat.com vars_file=/home/jswanson/ansible/satellite6.7-collections/capsule67-02.josh.lab.msp.redhat.com.vars.yml ansible_user=root