[Spacewalk-list] Dynamic Groups?

Guy Matz guymatz at gmail.com
Wed May 2 13:48:14 UTC 2018


David Bryant,
Yes!  Using spacewalk as a means for grouping hosts for ansible was the
cause of my question in the first place!  Could you elaborate a bit?

Thanks a lot!!

On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 6:17 PM, <david.bryant at bt.com> wrote:

> Guy,
>
>
>
> This really depends on your use case. At first, I grouped by OS major
> version because Spacewalk primarily handled package management. Later on, I
> moved to role-based groupings so that Spacewalk could be the dynamic
> inventory provider for Ansible stuff.
>
>
>
> David Bryant | Cyber DevOps Specialist | BT GS
>
>
>
> *From:* spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-
> bounces at redhat.com] *On Behalf Of *Guy Matz
> *Sent:* Tuesday, May 1, 2018 4:03 PM
> *To:* spacewalk-list at redhat.com
> *Subject:* Re: [Spacewalk-list] Dynamic Groups?
>
>
>
> Thanks for the reply!   Maybe I should just ask if anyone knows of a doc
> on best practices for groups in spacewalk?  Or if anyone has any opinions?
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Guy
>
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 8:38 PM, Waldirio Manhães Pinheiro <
> waldirio at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello Guy
>
> Could you explain more *in details* what is your real necessity ?
>
> I believe you can *automate* your SW/Internal features in different ways,
> for example, using
>  - API
>  - space_cmd
>  - spacewalk-api
>
> But is not clear to me what is your real necessity just to recommend the
> best way to you move forward.
>
> Have a good one.
>
>
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> On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 3:41 PM, Guy Matz <guymatz at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi!  I know I can work with Intersections/Unions of groups, but is there a
> way to make these groups dynamic?  So if, for example if I want a group of
> prod centos6 servers, I can have a group that is an intersection of "prod"
> and "centos6", but will that intersection get updated with new servers as I
> add them?
>
> If not, any work-around here?
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
> Guy
>
>
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