PUPPET-SUBSCRIPTION_MANAGER

This module provides Custom Puppet Provider to handle registration and consumption of Red Hat subscriptions using subscription-manager. Note, I am a puppet novice. This module was created by extensively borrowing from Gaël Chamoulaud's puppet-rhnreg_ks module.

License

Read Licence file for more information.

Requirements

• puppet-boolean on GitHub

Authors

• Gaël Chamoulaud (gchamoul at redhat dot com)
• James Laska (jlaska at redhat dot com)

Type and Provider

The module adds the following new types:

• rhsm_register for managing Red Hat Subscriptions

Parameters

• activationkeys: The activation key to use when registering the system (cannot be used with username and password)
• ensure: Valid values are present, absent. Default value is present.
• force: Should the registration be forced. Use this option with caution, setting it true will cause the system to be unregistered before running 'subscription-manager register'. Default value false.
• hardware: Whether or not the hardware information should be probed. Default value is true.
• password: The password to use when registering the system
• server_hostname: Specify a url to use as a server
• username: The username to use when registering the system

Example

Register clients to Red Hat Subscription Management using an activation key:

rhsm_register { 'satelite.example.com':
  server_hostname => 'my-satelite.example.com',
  activationkeys => '1-myactivationkey',
}

Register clients to Red Hat Subscription management using a username and password:

rhsm_register { 'subscription.rhn.example.com':
  username        => 'myusername',
  password        => 'mypassword',
  autosubscribe   => true,
  force           => true,
}

Installing

In your puppet modules directory:

git clone https://github.com/strider/puppet-subscription_manager.git

Ensure the module is present in your puppetmaster's own environment (it doesn't have to use it) and that the master has pluginsync enabled. Run the agent on the puppetmaster to cause the custom types to be synced to its local libdir (puppet master --configprint libdir) and then restart the puppetmaster so it loads them.

Issues

Please file any issues or suggestions on on GitHub