[rhos-list] Installing Openstack Essex on isolated RHEL 6.2 cluster

[Paul Robert Marino]

Derrick

Satellite can do it easily be used to deploy it and manage the
configuration files, but be warned Satellite still doesn't have full
integration with OpenStack yet nor does its upstream project
Spacewalk. so you wont be able to effectively use it to manage the
OpenStack cluster itself. what that means is you don't want to use the
Satellite built in VM provisioning because it will create them without
OpenStacks knowledge, also there is no Glance, or Cinder integration
in Satellite yet either. I have been testing with spacewalk and would
gladly share the information Ive put together so far on the subject.

Ive work at large companies that used Satellite in the past and am
currently using Spacewalk and have been actively involved with the
Spacewalk community. Based on my experience I can tell you this both
are great pieces of software and I would go so far to say they are
really required for any enterprise environment with more than 100
servers. That being said Spacewalk cant directly sync from RHN
although people have done it effectively through middle ware its not
officially supported, so if you aren't willing to put the effort in to
get bleeding edge software to work or your business requirements force
you to get support Satellite is the right way to go.

if you don't want to pay for Satellite or go through the effort of
setting up a spacewalk server you have 3 other options.

mrepo is just a simple repository  mirror that can mirror RHN channels

Pulp can also mirror RHN and can do kickstarts but is more complicated
than mrepo

Finally there is the option of using SAM should be able to act as a
RHN as well effective proxy
https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/docs/Red_Hat_Subscription_Asset_Manager/
. I be leave its already included with the standard RHEL support
license. Note I'm not sure about SAM's capabilities with OpenStack,
also I wouldn't suggest it for environment that are mission critical
or require change control because it wasn't really designed for it the
way Satellite was.

On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 1:27 PM, Perry Myers <pmyers at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 01/25/2013 01:19 PM, Derrick H. Karimi wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>      My organization has a satellite RHN server.  Our RHEL 6.2 cluster
>> does not have direct internet access.  How can I get the OpenStack essex
>> preview to work in this environment?
>
> Hmm...  I would assume it's possible to have a satellite server mirror
> from an eval channel and that should solve your issue.  But I'm not an
> expert on RHN/Satellite so I've cc'd a few folks who are
>
> Cliff/Todd, any thoughts?
>
> As an aside, I happen to be based in Pittsburgh (I see that you're from
> CMU) :)
>
> Perry
>
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