Uyuni - Introduction and how to manage CentOS
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The document introduces Uyuni, a systems management solution for deploying and managing various workloads, highlighting its features such as configuration management, patch management, and scalability. It outlines the software's background as a fork of Spacewalk, its community and development status, and installation instructions for CentOS. It also addresses support for different operating systems, including current features and limitations related to CentOS 8, and includes a general disclaimer about the document's content.
Uyuni - Introduction and how to manage CentOS
- 1. Pau Garcia Quiles Product Owner &Technical Project Manager SUSE Manager pau.garcia@suse.com Uyuni Introduction & how to manage CentOS
- 2. About me Pau Garcia Quiles Product Owner & Technical Project Manager SUSE Manager Former Debian Developer Former KDE developer Former... more things pagarcia @ irc.freenode.org pagarcia @ gitter.im pau.garcia@suse.com
- 3. What? Systems management solution Deploy and manage all kind of workloads from a single place Automate audit and reporting capabilities Hardware and software inventories Configuration management: automatically maintain standard configurations
- 5. Origins: Spacewalk Free & Open Source Systems Management Around since 2008 Base for Red Hat Satellite 5 and SUSE Manager <= 3.2 Maintenance mode: No modern configuration management No clear plans for the future
- 6. “Salar de Uyuni” is the world's largest salt flat* Uyuni /uju:ni/ * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salar_de_Uyuni Image: https://www.flickr.com/photos/madeleine_h/9468953452/ Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-SA 2.0)
- 7. Uyuni: fork of Spacewalk Simple installation Two stacks: traditional client (“spacewalk”) and Salt New development goes into Salt clients (“minions”) Traditional stack lets you continue using your Spacewalk/Satellite stack and knowledge in Uyuni. No need to convert to Salt. Containers/Kubernetes integration Scalability Usability React Web UI Python 3 and JDK11 codebase
- 8. System deployment Patch management Service Pack migration Configuration management Bare-metal provisioning Schedule action chains to be performed on systems API Features
- 9. Content Lifecycle Management Define stages (DEV, TEST, PRO) for your software channels Apply filters to add/remove contents Build container images Compliance management: OpenSCAP and CVE Audit! Get alerts and fix in 1-click! Subscription management Formulas with Forms: create your own YAML automation templates, no programming skills required Virtualization Monitoring (Prometheus & Grafana stack) Cool features!
- 10. Releases Rolling release 3 releases since October 2018 Working towards more frequent releases No Community vs Enterprise editions Upstream for SUSE Manager >= 4.0 since June 2018
- 11. Public repository and public development: upstream first policy Mailing lists, IRC, Gitter (Semi) Public CI Newest release: 2020.01 (today!) Base OS: openSUSE Leap 15.1 Clients: RHEL 6/7/8 CentOS 6/7/8 SLE11/12/15 openSUSE 15 Ubuntu 16.04/18.04 (Debian 9/10) (Oracle Enterprise Linux) Current situation
- 12. openSUSE Leap 15.2 as base system Cluster management Multi-Server More usability work Continue building the community! The future
- 14. Install Uyuni Install openSUSE Leap 15.1 Add Uyuni repository zypper in patterns-uyuni_server yast2 > Network Services > Uyuni Setup
- 15. Add CentOS channels zypper in spacewalk-utils spacewalk-common-channels -l | grep centos7 spacewalk-common-chanels -a x86_64 centos7 centos7-update centos7- uyuni-client spacewalk-repo-sync -c “centos7*” mgr-create-bootstrap-repo -f --with-custom-channels centos-7-x86_64
- 16. Onboard CentOS clients Create activation key Register clients using one of three methods: — Web UI (easiest) — Bootstrap script (massive onboarding, customization during onboarding) — Manually (install Salt minion, accept key in Server)
- 17. Errata Use Steve Meier’s external service to get errata information for CentOS Uyuni will use it for Patches and Audit Fully documented in Uyuni docs
- 18. CentOS supported features Check the docs for the full list of supported features: https://www.uyuni-project.org/uyuni-docs/uyuni/client- configuration/supported-features-centos.html If in doubt, ask in the lists, IRC or Gitter!
- 24. Q&A
- 25. A&Q CentOS 8 support Basic support (reposync and command-line) in Uyuni 2020.01 CentOS 8.1 does not work yet: modules.yaml is different from RHEL’s Managing appstreams in the UI, CLM and flattening repositories available in next release
- 26. A&Q It Uyuni available for CentOS? No but we will accept it if the community contributes it Unofficial packages available in OBS for Fedora
- 27. Join Us at uyuni-project.org Also at Config Management Camp 2020 next week: 3 talks (virtualization, AnsibleGate, Yomi) and an Uyuni workshop /uyuni-project /uyuni-project /UyuniProject
- 28. License This slide deck is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license. It can be shared and adapted for any purpose (even commercially) as long as Attribution is given and any derivative work is distributed under the same license. Details can be found at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ General Disclaimer This document is not to be construed as a promise by any participating organisation to develop, deliver, or market a product. It is not a commitment to deliver any material, code, or functionality, and should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions. openSUSE makes no representations or warranties with respect to the contents of this document, and specifically disclaims any express or implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for any particular purpose. The development, release, and timing of features or functionality described for openSUSE products remains at the sole discretion of openSUSE. Further, openSUSE reserves the right to revise this document and to make changes to its content, at any time, without obligation to notify any person or entity of such revisions or changes. All openSUSE marks referenced in this presentation are trademarks or registered trademarks of SUSE LLC, in the United States and other countries. All third-party trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Credits Template & Design Pau Garcia Quiles pau.garcia@suse.com Inspiration openSUSE Design Team http://opensuse.github.io/branding-guidelines/