cookbook 'spacewalk-client', '= 0.1.6'
spacewalk-client (15) Versions 0.1.6 Follow3
Installs/Configures a Spacewalk client
cookbook 'spacewalk-client', '= 0.1.6', :supermarket
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spacewalk-client Cookbook
This cookbook installs and registers a node as a Spacewalk client.
Requirements
- Ubuntu 12.04, 14.04
- CentOS/RHEL 5,6,7
Attributes
default['spacewalk']['pkg_source_path'] = Chef::Config[:file_cache_path]
default['spacewalk']['rhel']['base_url'] = 'http://yum.spacewalkproject.org/2.2-client/RHEL'
default['spacewalk']['reg']['key'] = 'my_activation_key'
default['spacewalk']['reg']['server'] = 'http://spacewalk.example.com'
default['spacewalk']['enable_osad'] = false
Usage
spacewalk-client::rhel
Include spacewalk-client::rhel in your node's run_list and set the default['spacewalk']['reg'] attributes.
spacewalk-client::ubuntu
Include spacewalk-client::ubuntu in your node's run_list and set the default['spacewalk']['reg'] attributes.
For 12.04 only, make sure you somehow (cookbook_file, remote_file..) put the following files in default['spacewalk']['pkg_source_path']
- apt-transport-spacewalk-1.0.6-2.all-deb.deb
- python-ethtool-0.11-2.amd64-deb.deb
- python-rhn-2.5.55-2.all-deb.deb
- rhn-client-tools-1.8.26-4.amd64-deb.deb
- rhnsd-5.0.4-3.amd64-deb.deb
(if you want OSAD)
- rhncfg_5.10.14-1ubuntu1.all.deb
- pyjabber_0.5.0-1.4ubuntu3.all.deb
- osad_5.11.27-1ubuntu1.all.deb
You can build them yourself like described here
http://www.devops-blog.net/spacewalk/registering-ubuntu-and-debian-servers-with-spacewalk
and the OSAD packages from here
https://launchpad.net/~mj-casalogic/+archive/ubuntu/spacewalk-ubuntu/+packages
License and Authors
Authors: Phil Schuler http://devops-blog.net
Dependent cookbooks
| yum-epel >= 0.0.0 |
Contingent cookbooks
There are no cookbooks that are contingent upon this one.
spacewalk-client CHANGELOG
This file is used to list changes made in each version of the spacewalk-client cookbook.
0.1.6
- Restart osad after registering with Spacewalk
0.1.5
- Install OSAD on clients if default['spacewalk']['enable_osad'] = true . Supports RHEL and Ubuntu
- Changed the .deb package filenames and removed obsolete '-deb'
0.1.4
- Bumped rhn-client-tools package to new version fixing the xmlrpclib.py workaround
- removed obsolete file xmlrpclib.py
- Allow to choose url to download spacewalk package (PR by https://github.com/obazoud thx!)
0.1.3
- Missing file for 0.1.1.
0.1.1
- Fixed the 'repodata() takes exactly 2 arguments' exception with Ubuntu clients
0.1.0
- [your_name] - Initial release of spacewalk-client
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