<div dir="ltr">Thanks for asking.<div><br></div><div>Pulp is moving away from consumer management. We think the best path for everyone is to focus on making pulp a great repository management tool, and leave system management to other projects that are dedicated to that purpose. Lots of our users already use ansible and puppet, so those are great starting points if you are looking to replace pulp-agent.</div><div><br></div><div>The current thinking is to remove pulp-agent and related features in 3.0. We will keep consumer tracking features though; you'll be able to use the API to report to pulp what machines exist in your infrastructure, what packages they have installed, what repositories they are using, and then pulp will tell you what updates are needed. All of this functionality exists today; it just won't be integrated with an agent anymore.</div><div><br></div><div>I'll send out more detail on the roadmap soon, but we hope to begin work on 3.0 relatively soon. We are already doing technical planning and preparation.</div><div><br></div><div>And of course, we want feedback and participation from everyone who is interested. As the core team, it can be challenging to identify what the best ways are to keep the whole community engaged, and to offer opportunities for participation. If you have thoughts about whether we should or should not keep pulp-agent, or anything else related to long-term planning, please share those thoughts!</div><div><br></div><div>Michael</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 11:26 AM, Ashby, Jason (IMS) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:AshbyJ@imsweb.com" target="_blank">AshbyJ@imsweb.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Hmm, I’m interested in hearing more about the agentless consumer proposal as well.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">I recently removed pulp from of all my consumers completely and instead have only the Pulp server. I use puppet to deploy the yum.repos.d files and sslcacert
that needs to present on the consumers. I use good old-fashioned ssh to do the yum updates.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">I’ve been using pulp for about 2+ years, and I’ve always battled with SSL cert issues (we have a root CA so I was dealing with an intermediary cert for the pulp
server which was tricky) as well as message queues (qpid and rabbitmq) always going down either from the messaging server or the consumer/agent itself. This is not to say it was pulp’s fault, but I felt like it was overkill for only 300ish servers we need
to manage. This new setup we’re using is way simpler and less for me to manage…just a server serving pulp repos.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> <a href="mailto:pulp-list-bounces@redhat.com" target="_blank">pulp-list-bounces@redhat.com</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:pulp-list-bounces@redhat.com" target="_blank">pulp-list-bounces@redhat.com</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Elizabeth Jones<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, March 31, 2016 10:57 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:pulp-list@redhat.com" target="_blank">pulp-list@redhat.com</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Pulp-list] pulp without consumer agents<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">I recently saw a youtube pulp video that I think was dated Jan 2016, the speaker was from redhat and mentioned in passing that pulp was going to be phasing
out consumer agents. Does anyone know anything more about this? We are running into problems being allowed to install anything on our servers and it would be handy if we could manage server patching from the pulp server without having to install a consumer
agent on the consumers.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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