Is an ansible playbook allowing you to host multiple Red Hat version
repositories all on one (or more) servers. By retrieving and refactoring the SSL
certificates and repository information from a given subscribed server(s) thus
allowing the host or hosts to be able to syncronise with Red Hat CDN as if it
was a subscribed host.
The example below uses two existing Red Hat servers, one RHEL6 and one RHEL7. Both machines have a valid subscription for the repositories we want to host.
Simply configure in the vars the variable servers describing the FQDN and
what Red Hat release the server is, and finally a list of the repos you are
wanting to to syncronise with Red Hat CDN.
servers:
rhel7.internal.lan:
release: 7Server
repos:
- rhel-7-server-rpms
- rhel-7-server-optional-rpms
- rhel-7-server-extras-rpms
- rhel-7-server-supplementary-rpms
- rhel-ha-for-rhel-7-server-rpms
- rhel-rs-for-rhel-7-server-rpms
- rhel-server-rhscl-7-rpms
rhel6.internal.lan:
release: 6Server
repos:
- rhel-6-server-extras-rpms
- rhel-6-server-optional-rpms
- rhel-6-server-rpms
- rhel-6-server-supplementary-rpms
- rhel-server-rhscl-6-rpms
You can control the destination location of the repositories base directory by
setting the repo_base variable. By default it is set to /var/www/html/repos
A sample redacted structure post execution is:
/var/www/html/repos/
├── 6Server
│ ├── rhel-6-server-extras-rpms
│ │ ├── Packages
│ │ └── repodata
│ ├── rhel-6-server-optional-rpms
│ │ ├── Packages
│ │ └── repodata
│ ├── rhel-6-server-rpms
│ │ ├── Packages
│ │ └── repodata
│ ├── rhel-6-server-supplementary-rpms
│ │ ├── Packages
│ │ └── repodata
│ └── rhel-server-rhscl-6-rpms
│ ├── Packages
│ └── repodata
└── 7Server
├── rhel-7-server-extras-rpms
│ ├── Packages
│ └── repodata
├── rhel-7-server-optional-rpms
│ ├── Packages
│ └── repodata
├── rhel-7-server-rpms
│ ├── Packages
│ └── repodata
├── rhel-7-server-supplementary-rpms
│ ├── Packages
│ └── repodata
├── rhel-ha-for-rhel-7-server-rpms
│ ├── Packages
│ └── repodata
├── rhel-rs-for-rhel-7-server-rpms
│ ├── Packages
│ └── repodata
└── rhel-server-rhscl-7-rpms
├── Packages
└── repodata
All configurations used by the reposync command are generated and placed in a
directory which is configurable by editing the config_path variable. The
default is set to config_path: /etc/reposync and contains a custom yum.conf
file, the refactored .repo files, and the SSL certificates. An example:
/etc/reposync/
├── certs
│ ├── 6Server
│ │ ├── 6447223819138729323-key.pem
│ │ ├── 6447223819138729323.pem
│ │ └── redhat-uep.pem
│ └── 7Server
│ ├── 0990874270948909603-key.pem
│ ├── 0990874270948909603.pem
│ ├── 2576679062146528490-key.pem
│ ├── 2576679062146528490.pem
│ ├── 8772713078987633877-key.pem
│ ├── 8772713078987633877.pem
│ └── redhat-uep.pem
├── repos.d
│ ├── rhel-6-server-extras-rpms.repo
│ ├── rhel-6-server-optional-rpms.repo
│ ├── rhel-6-server-rpms.repo
│ ├── rhel-6-server-supplementary-rpms.repo
│ ├── rhel-7-server-extras-rpms.repo
│ ├── rhel-7-server-optional-rpms.repo
│ ├── rhel-7-server-rpms.repo
│ ├── rhel-7-server-supplementary-rpms.repo
│ ├── rhel-ha-for-rhel-7-server-rpms.repo
│ ├── rhel-rs-for-rhel-7-server-rpms.repo
│ ├── rhel-server-rhscl-6-rpms.repo
│ └── rhel-server-rhscl-7-rpms.repo
└── yum.conf
Each .repo file is generated by extracting the INI section and refactoring it
from the original redhat.repo file present on the subscribed server. Changes
made are that we point the SSL certificates and key to the new path. Hardcode
the releasever and set the basearch to x86_64 (May add other architecture
options if requested).