ansible-satellite

Automate Satellite Installation and Configuration using Ansible Roles

Requirements

Ansible Roles

• redhat.satellite | Documentation
• redhat.satellite_operations | Documentation

Problem with roles content_views and content_view_publish

Both roles require the variable satellite_content_views defined in different ways. To workaround this, the role task for content_view_publish can be adjusted.

--- .ansible/collections/ansible_collections/redhat/satellite/roles/content_view_publish/tasks/main.yml  2023-03-15 22:34:42.626174482 +0100
+++ main.yml    2023-03-15 22:34:35.401170571 +0100
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
     password: "{{ satellite_password | default(omit) }}"
     server_url: "{{ satellite_server_url | default(omit) }}"
     validate_certs: "{{ satellite_validate_certs | default(omit) }}"
-    content_view: "{{ content_view }}"
+    content_view: "{{ content_view.name | default(content_view) }}"
     organization: "{{ satellite_organization }}"
   loop: "{{ satellite_content_views }}"
   loop_control:

The fix is addressed upstream in Pullrequest #1571.

Virtual Machine used

CPU: 4 cores
Memory: 20G
Disk: 100G

I used Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.7 KVM Guest Image to install the basic operating system.

Steps done in the playbook

1. Register the system at Red Hat Customer Portal, using an Activation-Key
2. Configure required repositories
3. Setup and Install Satellite dependencies
4. Run basic installation of Satellite using satellite-installer
5. Download and import Subscirption Manifest
6. Configure Lifecycle Environments
7. Configure Red Hat Repositories
8. Synchronize Red Hat Repositories (If tag sync is defined)
9. Configure content-views
10. Publish content-views (If tag publish is defined)
11. Housekeeping of content-views (default: Only keep 1 additional version)
12. Setup additional Satellite Settings
13. Configure Activation Keys

Usage

To execute this playbook, run nfollwing command.

$ ansible-playbook satellite-dev.yml -K -b --ask-vault-pass --tags sync,publish