[Pulp-list] pulp supporting automated deployment/test scenarios?

[David Schmitt]

Hi Josh,

thanks for your answer. That sounds definitely encouraging. From the 
documentation I had not expected it to be so easy ;-)


Regards, David

On 09.05.2014 14:15, Baird, Josh wrote:
> David,
>
> You don't necessarily need to use the pulp-consumer client on your
> hosts just to use Pulp repositories.  You can simply drop yum repo
> definitions down to each host that point to the pulp repos.  We
> automate and manage these yum repo definitions with Puppet.  When
> kickstarting, simply point your KS to the pulp-repository containing
> the distribution packages just like you would if it were a normal
> non-pulp repository.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Josh
>
>
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> [Pulp-list] pulp supporting automated deployment/test scenarios?
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm currently evaluating pulp as a yum repo backend for a Scientific
> Linux cluster and several other groups of machines. The setup is
> puppet and foreman based. Development is done in local vagrant
> boxes.
>
> Using vagrant, I expect regular turn-over of consumers. I gather that
> pulp-consumer always has to register with the server first using
> username/password and it seems to me that unregistering the client is
> a manual process.
>
> I've got several questions I was unable to answer from reading the
> documentation:
>
> - Is there a way to use pulp repositories without registration?
>
> - If not, is there a way to timeout registrations easily, so the
> server is not home to a huge number of zombies?
>
> - If not, how would kickstarting against a pulp repository work?
>
> - Is it possible to use duplicate consumer-ids (concurrently)?
>
> - Will pulp-admin rpm repo copy rpm also remove RPMs that are not
> available at --from-repo-id anymore?
>
> - Does the RPM provider also synchronize the images/ directory
> required for kickstarting?
>
>
>
>
> Thanks for your time, David
>
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