[katello-devel] Where should subscriptions be?

[Mike McCune]

On 07/12/2012 07:30 AM, Bryan Kearney wrote:
> Questions from some design sessions on Foreman integration. Where should
> we tie subscriptions to?
>
> We could put them onto the the component outline to say "Any system
> provisioned from this outline should consume from this subscription".
> This is better for the case where you create the system record first,
> and then provision it.
>
> Or, we could put them on the activation key which would say "When you
> register this machine with this key, you get this subscription". This is
> better when you provision outside of katello and then register the
> machine back.

+1

I know this is how it is done in Satellite and I don't want to blindly 
just do it like we did before but it worked well to have one central 
concept that tied a subscription to a registration point.


>
> Or, we could put them on both, and have some logic about how to handle
> the case when it is on both. Or, perhaps, every component outline gets
> an activation key?
>

just have every component outline have an activation key.  Let the akeys 
be the central location for quickly assigning a subscription to a 
system.  You can use them outside a system template or embed them.

Mike