[katello-devel] Consumer and goferd

[Lukas Zapletal]

Hello,

I noticed when we install katello-cert-consumer bootstrap RPM which
deploys Katello server certificate (also used for Katello Agent), it
does not restart goferd when it is not running. It only restarts it when
it is running.

Now, I wonder if we want to keep this. Because then the client bootstrap
process is missing one step - by default goferd is turned off and not
started (after provisioning).

Currently, to write correct bootstrap script that can be used to
provision systems, you need several actions:

* Make sure a time synchronizer is installed and enabled on a provisioned
  system
* Install all Katello client components (*)
* Configure the client (using RPM bootstrap package preferably)
* Register the client (with activation keys preferably)
* Optionally subscribe to repositories (when immediate content consumption
  is necessary)

(*) - these steps are not necessary for RHEL systems, albeit this does
not apply to RHEL clones.

I found we are missing one another step:

* Make sure goferd daemon is started to use Katello Agent

It looks like a decent amount of work to bootstrap a system now. Isn't
a time to start a bootstrap script that would be distributed in the
/pub/html directory (maybe as an example too)?

-- 
Later,

 Lukas "lzap" Zapletal
 #katello #systemengine