Transition Guidance Request

Support
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Administering 100-200 RHEL 5 servers/workstations, transitioning to RHEL 6
with VMWare virtualization

I am currently using Puppet 3.x together with Cobbler maintaining local
repository mirrors in a home-grown minimal equivalent of Satellite 5.

I would like to make a pitch to Management to obtain licensing for
Satellite 6, but I need some help transitioning from Cobbler into the
forman/katello/pulp/candlepin combo.

I installed the open source forman/katello/pulp/candlepin/puppet on a
CentOS 6 VM at home and was amazed at the ease of installation and the
features of the web GUI.

I created a local mirror of one of the CentOS repos with a few mouse
clicks. WOW !

Now the questions:

I am used to the way Cobbler manages its repos and kickstarts and snippets
for bare-metal provisioning.

What is the equivalent workflow path thru forman/katello/pulp/candlepin for
provisioning/kickstarting RHEL/CentOS machines ?

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> I am used to the way Cobbler manages its repos and kickstarts and snippets
> for bare-metal provisioning.
>
> What is the equivalent workflow path thru forman/katello/pulp/candlepin for
> provisioning/kickstarting RHEL/CentOS machines ?

Hello,

there's so much to tell, I'd suggest you to start here:

http://theforeman.org

See our documentation, read about Foreman architecture and we also have
many videos and presentations where you can find topics dedicated to
provisioning.

http://theforeman.org/media.html

Hope this helps.

ยทยทยท -- Later, Lukas #lzap Zapletal