Katello provisioning setup

A role is included which will configure an all-on-one provisioning environment with Katello. It uses nested libvirt to make your virtual machine a hypervisor capable of running it's own VM's. It also sets up a private NAT network on the host.

How to configure

  1. Enable nested virt on your phyiscal box. See http://www.rdoxenham.com/?p=275 comments for more details. Essentially, add this line to kvm-intel.conf and reboot:

    echo "options kvm-intel nested=1" | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/kvm-intel.conf

  2. Build a box

    • Option 1: Use the centos7-provision-nightly box.

    • Option 2: Use an existing katello box (e.g. centos7-katello-p4-nightly) and run the provisioning playbook (it takes a while, as it syncs (on-demand) centos7, puppet 4). Note: If you are using puppet 4, you need to increase the ram on the box, to something like 8096 otherwise candlepin crashes with OOM. ansible-playbook -l centos7-katello-p4-nightly playbooks/katello_provisioning.yml

  3. Login and create a compute profile, because this isn't possible with hammer or the API.

  4. Click Infrastructure / Compute Resources

  5. Click "libvirt"
  6. Click Compute profiles
  7. Click 2-Medium - increse ram to 1024MB (required for centos 7) - change network type to NAT, network name = provision

  8. Click Submit

  9. Configure Activation Key

  10. Content/ Activation Keys

  11. Assign all available subscriptions to the activation key

  12. Configure / Host groups

    • Edit Forklift CentOS 7
    • Set Compute profile to be "2-Medium"
    • Assign the CentOS 7 activation key to the host group

  13. You're good to go! Let's provision a box!

    • Click Hosts/ New Host
    • Fill in: - org, location, host group - deploy on = libvirt

    DONE! Click submit :tada:

  14. If you want to view the console while it boots, make sure to trust the CA certificate in your browser, it's hosted at https://centos7-katello-nightly.example.com/pub/katello-server-ca.crt, and you'll need to make sure you're accessing the katello via it's proper hostname (add an entry to /etc/hosts)