Python-foreman and lifecycle_environments

Anthony_Chevalet · January 27, 2020, 4:35pm

Hi there,

I’m trying to manage lifecycle environments with python-foreman but I’m not able to, see https://github.com/david-caro/python-foreman/issues/98.
Just asking here in case someone has an idea?

Thanks,
Anthony

ekohl · January 27, 2020, 4:45pm

I would recommend taking a look at apypie which is maintained by Foreman developers who need it for foreman-ansible-modules.

Anthony_Chevalet · January 27, 2020, 5:13pm

Thanks for the heads up, but I really need to use this python-foreman for contribution to https://github.com/adfinis-sygroup/foreman-yml.

tbrisker · January 27, 2020, 6:24pm

If i had to guess, that library hasn’t implemented the api calls for lifecycle environment. it looks like it was last updated two years ago, and from a quick glance doesn’t seem to have support for any katello api endpoints.

Anthony_Chevalet · January 27, 2020, 6:30pm

Actually this library is built dynamically from the apidoc of the running foreman instance, see here https://github.com/david-caro/python-foreman/blob/master/doc/definitions.rst. It works fine for all other katello objects, so I’m wondering if it could be a conflict between puppet env and lifecycle env…

ekohl · January 28, 2020, 4:15pm

Looking at foreman-yml, I wonder if foreman-ansible-modules isn’t already a fully replacement for that. It tries to achieve the same goal.

https://github.com/adfinis-sygroup/foreman-yml/issues/71

There are also patches applied in foreman-ansible-module to work around issues:

github.com

theforeman/foreman-ansible-modules/blob/a8a48c045da47171baf0f34fa577375540fc01e4/plugins/module_utils/foreman_helper.py#L72-L141


      
              self._patch_content_uploads_update_api()
              self._patch_organization_update_api()
              self._patch_subscription_index_api()
              self._patch_sync_plan_api()
          
          def _patch_content_uploads_update_api(self):
              """This is a workaround for the broken content_uploads update apidoc in katello.
                  see https://projects.theforeman.org/issues/27590
              """
          
              _content_upload_methods = self.foremanapi.apidoc['docs']['resources']['content_uploads']['methods']
          
              _content_upload_update = next(x for x in _content_upload_methods if x['name'] == 'update')
              _content_upload_update_params_id = next(x for x in _content_upload_update['params'] if x['name'] == 'id')
              _content_upload_update_params_id['expected_type'] = 'string'
          
              _content_upload_destroy = next(x for x in _content_upload_methods if x['name'] == 'destroy')
              _content_upload_destroy_params_id = next(x for x in _content_upload_destroy['params'] if x['name'] == 'id')
              _content_upload_destroy_params_id['expected_type'] = 'string'

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Anthony_Chevalet · January 28, 2020, 5:40pm

My initial need is to:
1- Dump a running foreman instance in yaml format to track changes through gitlab diff
2- Provision a new foreman instance based on same files for DR or testing purpose
3- Optionally update or create objects through git merge requests
Is it something that could be achieved with foreman-ansible-modules?
If yes I will check it out!
Thanks

Anthony_Chevalet · January 29, 2020, 4:34pm

After a quick look to foreman-ansible-modules, I think I will miss the dump feature