README.md

Pulp Common

Ansible role that installs shared components of the Pulp 3 services from PyPi or source and provides basic config.

The default administrative user for the Pulp application is: 'admin'

Role Variables

• pulp_install_plugins: Required A nested dictionary of plugins to install & their installation options.
  • Dictionary Key: Required. The pip installable plugin name. This is defined in each plugin's setup.py.
  • version: Specific release of the plugin to install from PyPI initially, or to upgrade to. If source_dir is set, this has no effect. Note that if the specified release of the plugin is incompatible with pulpcore's version, pulp_installer will fail (and exit the play) before it tries to install or upgrade the plugin. Defaults to nothing, which means the latest release from PyPI will be installed initially, and no upgrades will be performed unless upgrade is set.
  • version and upgrade cannot be used together. Even though a command like pip install --upgrade pulp-file=0.3.0 is valid, the ansible pip module refuses to let you specify version and state=latest (state=latest maps to pip --upgrade, and to our upgrade: true).
  • upgrade: Whether to update/upgrade the plugin to the latest stable release from PyPI. Only affects systems where the plugin is already installed. If source_dir is set, this has no effect and is effectively always true. Mutually exclusive with version. Note that if the latest stable release of the plugin is incompatible with pulpcore's version, pulp_installer will fail (and exit the play) when it goes to upgrade the plugin. Defaults to "false".
  • source_dir: Optional. Absolute path to the plugin source code. If present, plugin will be installed from source in editable mode. Also accepts a pip VCS URL, to (for example) install the master branch.
  • prereq_role: Optional. Name of (or folder path to) Ansible role to run immediately before the venv is created. You will need to download it 1st (with ansible-galaxy.) Needed because many plugins will have OS dependencies in C. See prereq_pip_packages also.
  • Example:

  pulp_install_source: pip
  pulp_install_plugins:
    pulp-zero: {}
    pulp-one: # plugin name (pulp-ansible, pulp-container, pulp-rpm, ...)
      version: "1.0.1" # specific release (pulp-file-0.3.0)
    pulp-two:
      upgrade: true # upgrade to the latest stable release from PyPI
    pulp-three:
      source_dir: "/var/lib/pulp/pulp_three" # path to the plugin source code
    pulp-four:
      prereq_role: "pulp.pulp_four_role" # role to run immediately before the venv is created

• pulp_cache_dir: Location of Pulp cache. Defaults to "/var/lib/pulp/tmp".
• pulp_config_dir: Directory which will contain Pulp configuration files. Defaults to "/etc/pulp".
• pulp_install_dir: Location of a virtual environment for Pulp and its Python dependencies. Defaults to "/usr/local/lib/pulp".
• pulp_user_home: equivalent to MEDIA_ROOT from pulpcore i.e. absolute path for pulp user home.
• pulp_source_dir: Optional. Absolute path to pulpcore source code. If present, pulpcore will be installed from source in editable mode. Also accepts a pip VCS URL, to (for example) install the master branch.
• pulp_user: User that owns and runs Pulp. Defaults to "pulp".
• pulp_user_id: Integer value of uid for the pulp_user. Defaults to nothing and uid is assigned by the system.
• pulp_group: The group that the pulp_user belongs to. Defaults to pulp.
• pulp_group_id: Integer value of gid for the pulp_group. Defaults to nothing and gid is assigned by the system.
• pulp_extra_groups: Optional. A list of additional group names that the pulp_user should be added to. This is site-specific and defaults to nothing.
• pulp_use_system_wide_pkgs Use python system-wide packages. Defaults to "false".
• pulp_remote_user_environ_name Optional. Set the REMOTE_USER_ENVIRON_NAME setting for Pulp. This variable will be set as the value of CONTENT_HOST as the base path to build content URLs.
• pulp_settings: A nested dictionary that is used to add custom values to the user's setting.py, which will override any default values set by pulpcore. The keys of this dictionary are variable names, and the values should be expressed using the Dynaconf syntax Please see pulpcore configuration docs for documentation on the possible variable names and their values.
  • pulp_settings.content_origin: Required. The URL to the pulp_content host that clients will access, and that will be appended to in HTTP responses by multiple content plugins. Any load balancers / proxies (such as those in the pulp_webserver role) normally should be specified instead of the pulp content host itself. Syntax is (http|https)://(hostname|ip)[:port].
  • pulp_settings.secret_key: Required. Pulp's Django application SECRET_KEY.
• epel_release_packages: List of strings (package names, URLs) to pass to yum install to ensure that "epel-release" is installed. Once the 1st string is found to be installed by yum, no further strings are attempted. Defaults to (on el7 for example): ["epel-release", "https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm"] Set to an empty list [] if you wish to disable trying to install epel-release, such as if you manually add the EPEL repo via your own configuration or subscription-manager/katello. Also accepts a single string or empty string. Only affects CentOS/RHEL.
• rhel7_optional_repo: List of possible names for the rhel7 optional repo to enable. Once the 1st name is enabled (or found to already be enabled), no further names are attempted. Defaults to ["rhui-rhel-7-server-rhui-optional-rpms", "rhel-7-server-optional-rpms", "rhel-7-workstation-optional-rpms"] Set to an empty list [] if you wish to disable trying to enable the repo, such as if you manually add the optional repo via your own configuration or subscription-manager/katello. Also accepts a single string or empty string. Only affects RHEL7 (RHEL8 no longer has an optional repo.)

Role Variables if installing from RPMs

Normally, Pulp is installed from Python pip packages (from PyPI.) pulp_installer can install Pulp from RPM packages instead if this variable is set. Other distro packaging formats may work as well:

• pulp_install_source: Whether to install from "pip" (PyPI, python packages) or the Linux distro's (RPM) "packages". Defaults to "pip".

If it is set to "packages", the following variables are used, or behave differently from above:

• pulp_install_plugins: Required A nested dictionary of plugins to install & their installation options.
  • Dictionary Key: Required. The plugin name.
  • pkg_name: If this is left undefined, each Linux distro package will be installed by the name pulp_pkg_name_prefix with the Dictionary Key appended to it. pulp_pkg_name_prefix defaults to "python3-", so if the Dictionary key is, "pulp-file", the package python3-pulp-file will be installed. This variable overrides the entire package name.
  • Example:

  pulp_install_source: packages
  pulp_install_plugins:
    pulp-zero: {} # Effectively python3-pulp-zero
    pulp-one: {}
      pkg_name: python3-pulp-one-ng
    pulp-two:
      pkg_name: pulp_two_underscores

• pulp_install_dir: Location of the filesystem prefix where package installed python programs (gunicorn & rq) are looked for on the filesystem. Defaults to "/usr" (such as for "/usr/bin/gunicorn").
• pulp_django_admin_paths: A list of possible filepaths to the django-admin command. The first one found will be used for pulp_installer's internal usage. See defaults/main.yml for default values.
• pulp_pkg_name_prefix: The beginning of the Linux distro (RPM) package names for pulp, that is appended to in order to install "pulpcore" and the plugins. Defaults to "python3-".
• pulp_pkg_pulpcore_name: The entire name of the Linux distro (RPM) package for pulpcore. Defaults to: "python3-pulpcore"
• pulp_pkg_repo: yum/dnf package repo to add to the system before installing Pulp Consists simply of the URL to the repo. Defaults to nothing. Does not support any other repo type yet.
• pulp_pkg_undeclared_deps: Additional Linux distro (RPM) packages to install before installing pulpcore. See defaults/main.yml for default values.
• pulp_pkg_upgrade_all: Whether to upgrade all Pulp Linux distro (RPM) packages (including the pulp_pkg_undeclared_deps packages.)
• pulp_upgraded_manually: Set this to true if you updated/upgraded Pulp manually beforehand, without using the installer. (e.g., you ran yum update and your Pulp installation is broken. Re-running the installer will fix it.) Defaults to false.

Shared Variables

• ansible_python_interpreter: Required. Path to the Python interpreter.

• prereq_pip_packages: Additional pip packages to install in the virtual environment before installing pulp or its content plugins. Defaults to an empty list, but a prereq_role may append to it.

This role is required by the pulp_database role and uses some variables from it.

• pulp_settings_db_defaults: See pulp_database README.

Operating System Variables

Each currently supported operating system has a matching file in the "vars" directory.

Idempotency

This role is idempotent by default. It is dependent on these settings remaining false:

• Every upgrade under pulp_install_plugins
• pulp_upgraded_manually

License

GPLv2+

Author Information

Pulp Team