Katello commands for Hammer CLI

This plugin provides same set of commands as katello CLI.

by inspection of Katello CLI we generate JSON description of its commands. This plugin can load the description and build equivalent set of commands for Hammer CLI.

How to use

clone the plugin

$ git clone git@github.com:theforeman/hammer-cli-katello-bridge.git
$ cd hammer-cli-katello-bridge
$ rake install
$ cd ..

update the config similar to this

:modules:
    - hammer_cli_katello_bridge
:katello_bridge:
    :cli_description: '/tmp/katello.json'
    #:username: admin
    #:password: admin

run

$ hammer -h

Usage:
    hammer [OPTIONS] SUBCOMMAND [ARG] ...

Parameters:
    SUBCOMMAND                    subcommand
    [ARG] ...                     subcommand arguments

Subcommands:
    about                         status of the katello server and its subcomponents
    activation_key                activation key specific actions in the katello server
    admin                         various administrative actions
    changeset                     changeset specific actions in the katello server
    client                        client specific actions in the katello server
    content                       content namespace command
    distribution                  repo specific actions in the katello server
    distributor                   distributor specific actions in the katello server
    environment                   environment specific actions in the katello server
    errata                        errata specific actions in the katello server
    gpg_key                       GPG key specific actions in the katello server
    node                          node specific actions in the katello server
    org                           organization specific actions in the katello server
    package                       package specific actions in the katello server
    package_group                 package group specific actions in the katello server
    permission                    permission specific actions in the katello server
    ping                          get the status of the katello server
    product                       product specific actions in the katello server
    provider                      provider specific actions in the katello server
    puppet_module                 puppet module specific actions in the katello server
    repo                          repo specific actions in the katello server
    shell                         run the cli as a shell
    sync_plan                     synchronization plan specific actions in the katello server
    system                        system specific actions in the katello server
    system_group                  system group specific actions in the katello server
    task                          commands for retrieving task information
    user                          user specific actions in the katello server
    user_role                     user role specific actions in the katello server
    version                       get the version of the katello server

Options:
    -v, --verbose                 be verbose
    -c, --config CFG_FILE         path to custom config file
    -u, --username USERNAME       username to access the remote system
    -p, --password PASSWORD       password to access the remote system
    --version                     show version
    --show-ids                    Show ids of associated resources
    --csv                         Output as CSV (same as --adapter=csv)
    --adapter ADAPTER             Set output format. One of [base, table, silent, csv]
    -P, --ask-pass                Ask for password
    --autocomplete LINE           Get list of possible endings
    -h, --help                    print help

Username and password

There are multiple ways to specify Katello username and password. The priority is as follows (later one overrides the preceeding)

• in configuration as in the config sample
• in environment variable $KATELLO_USERNAME, $KATELLO_PASSWORD
• on command line --username, --password
• interactive password prompt with -P