chef-rhn

Redhat is in the process of transitioning their hosted managment from RHN to RHSM (https://access.redhat.com/rhn-to-rhsm) this cook books focus is on configuring clients of the RHN product (rhn.redhat.com, redhat satellite 5.x, and spacewalk). On December 9th, 2015, Chef announced a new redhat_subscription_manager cookbook for configuring clients of their RHSM products (satellite 6.x, katello, SAM, etc). Please see their blog post for more information!

https://www.chef.io/blog/2015/12/09/managing-red-hat-subscriptions-with-chef-2/

Description

Registers node with Red Hat Network (rhn.redhat.com or RHN Satellite) and configures client.

Requirements

Active RHN system entitlement for node.

Platforms

• RHEL 5
• RHEL 6
• RHEL 7

Cookbooks

• None

Usage

Register Node with Hosted RHN (rhn.redhat.com)

Securely with encrypted data bag:
* Create wrapper cookbook which:
* Sets node['rhn']['register'] to false
* Reads encrypted data bag
* Calls default recipe (or customize)
* Calls rhn_system LWRP

Less securely with attributes:
* Set node['rhn']['username'] and node['rhn']['password']
* Add recipe[rhn] to your run_list

Register Node with RHN Satellite (satellite.example.com)

• Add at least one activation key to node['rhn']['activation_keys']
• Set your RHN Satellite FQDN in node['rhn']['hostname']
• Add recipe[rhn] to your run_list

Attributes

These attributes are under the node['rhn'] namespace.

Actions Attributes

These attributes are under the node['rhn']['actions'] namespace.

Organization CA Certificate Attributes

These attributes are under the node['rhn']['org_ca_cert'] namespace.

Organization GPG Key Attributes

These attributes are under the node['rhn']['org_gpg_key'] namespace.

Proxy Attributes

These attributes are under the node['rhn']['proxy'] namespace.

RHN Config Client Attributes

These attributes are under the node['rhn']['rhncfg-client'] namespace.

RHN Sync Daemon Attributes

These attributes are under the node['rhn']['rhnsd'] namespace.

LWRPs

• system: Register node with RHN
• system_action: Enable/disable RHN system action on node

rhn_system

Below are the available actions for the LWRP, default being register.

These attributes are associated with all LWRP actions.

rhn_system action :register

These attributes are associated with this LWRP action. The name attribute will set the RHN profile name on registration.

Register with hosted RHN with hostname as profile name and possibly username/password from an encrypted data bag:

rhn_system node['hostname'] do
  password 'myPasswordFromDataBag'
  username 'myUsernameFromDataBag'
end

Register with hosted RHN or Satellite with custom profile name:

rhn_system 'special-snowflake'

rhn_system_action

Below are the available actions for the LWRP, default being enable.

rhn_system_action action :disable

The name attribute is the RHN system action name.

Disable run action from node:

rhn_system_action 'run' do
  action :disable
end

rhn_system_action action :enable

The name attribute is the RHN system action name.

Enable run action on node:

rhn_system_action 'run'

Enable all actions on node:

rhn_system_action 'all'

Recipes

• recipe[rhn] - RHN client configuration and system registration
• recipe[rhn::actions] - configures RHN system actions on client
• recipe[rhn::org_ca_cert] - installs organization CA certificate
• recipe[rhn::org_gpg_key] - installs organization GPG key
• recipe[rhn::register] - registers node with hosted RHN or Satellite
• recipe[rhn::rhncfg] - configures RHN client configuration
• recipe[rhn::rhnsd] - configures RHN sync daemon
• recipe[rhn::up2date] - configures up2date

Testing and Development

• Quickly testing with Vagrant: [VAGRANT.md](VAGRANT.md)
• Full development and testing workflow with Test Kitchen and friends: [TESTING.md](TESTING.md)

Contributing

Please see contributing information in: [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md)

Maintainers

• Brian Flad (bflad417@gmail.com)

License

Please see licensing information in: [LICENSE](LICENSE)