[Spacewalk-list] Configuration Management - Dependencies

Fri May 30 09:12:43 UTC 2014

Hi Stuart,

As far as I remember it is true for the GUI (called Tower ?).
But you can use the CLI (what most people do) and I should indeed correct my previous statement:

It took me 30 minutes to read and write first _working_ Ansible playbook (piece of code which does something (of course useful for us ☺)  ).

Before we had been using Puppet for that kind of tasks but it was rigid for certain type of tasks.
Once I looked at Ansible I was surprised how it can be so simple to use (and after a few days started writing script to remove Puppet agents from our nodes ☺ ).

Regards
P.

From: Stuart Green [mailto:stuart.green at doccentrics.com]
Sent: 30 May 2014 10:01
To: Przemyslaw Bak; spacewalk-list at redhat.com; Matthew Madey
Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Configuration Management - Dependencies

Hi Przemyslaw,

I looked that before it went subscription and indeed it looked a great product, is it right you can only control 10 systems for free in the current version?

Cheers,
Stuart

Hi all,

I have tried some time ago to do the same but nowadays we use Ansible for that kind of tasks (migrated from Puppet …).
It took me 30 minutes to read about Ansible (less then digging into Satellite manuals ;-) ).
It is so flexible (and easy to install – no agents on nodes !) that we won’t  use neither Puppet nor Satellite to do that kind of tasks.

Best regards
P.

From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com<mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com> [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Stuart Green
Sent: 30 May 2014 09:29
To: Matthew Madey; spacewalk-list at redhat.com<mailto:spacewalk-list at redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Configuration Management - Dependencies

That's excellent information, thank's for taking the time Matt.
You may be able to achieve this using the Configuration Channel ranks under Activation Keys.. but this will only work when you are first registering the client to Spacewalk.. once it is registered I don't think you can achieve what you are trying to do using Configuration Channels.. this sounds more like a job for Puppet.. you could however put a script that does what you need as a configuration file, and use Remote Actions to run it on the selected clients.

I use the API heavily for these kinds of tasks.. there is a great little python script out there on Github for scheduling remote actions on clients. Basically all you have to do is create the script you want to run on a client, and pipe it to this python script:

https://github.com/angrox/spacewalk-api-scripts/tree/master/spacewalk-schedule-scriptrun

On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 5:45 AM, Stuart Green <stuart.green at doccentrics.com<mailto:stuart.green at doccentrics.com>> wrote:
Hi Folks,

Is there a way to make one configuration management channel change dependant on another.

In this case, I have two steps.

Create a new directory on the client
Create a new file on the client within the new directory

I want to make sure the 1st step happens before the 2nd, so the 2nd step does not fail, is it possible?

Thanks,
Stu

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