ahuffman.satellite6_manage_content_views

An Ansible role to manage publishing and promotion of Satellite6 content views and composite content views.

Role Variables

Variable Name	Required	Description	Default Value	Type
sat6_fqdn	yes	Fully-qualified domain name of your Satellite6 server.	""	string
sat6_user	yes	Satellite6 user with rights to view/read/delete/publish/promote content views.	""	string
sat6_pass	yes	Password of the sat6_user. Recommended to store this value encrypted in an Ansible vault.	""	string
sat6_organization	yes	Name of the Satellite6 Organization where the content views reside.	""	string
sat6_max_task_retries	no	Maximum number of attempts at checking a task's status in Satellite 6. Used with sat6_retry_delay	"240"	integer
sat6_retry_delay	no	Time to delay in seconds between retrying Satellite6 task status checks. Used with sat6_max_task_retries. For example, sat6_max_task_retries * sat6_retry_delay / 60 = 120 (1 hour). This is how long we will wait for a publish, promote, create, delete of a content view to complete.	"30"	integer
sat6_content_views	yes	List of content views to act upon with the role. See the sat6_content_views - Dictionary fields section for details.	[]	list of dictionaries
sat6_content_view_show_stats	no	Whether or not to display a summary of actions the role completed on your content views	True	boolean

sat6_content_views - Dictionary fields

Variable Name	Required	Description	Default Value	Type
name	yes	Name of the content view to manage.	N/A	string
create_on_missing	no	Not implemented yet	False	boolean
publish_new_version	no	Publishes a new content view version if True.	False	boolean
publish_description	no	Description of content view changes during publishing of a new version. When used with a composite content view the underlying content views will be published with this description as well if using components.publish_all: True.	""	string
publish_force_yum_metadata_regeneration	no	Whether or not to force yum metadata regeneration while publishing a new content view version	False	boolean
promote_to	no	List of lifecycle environment/paths to promote the newest content view to. We will skip promoting to any listed environments where the content view has already been promoted.	[]	list
promote_description	no	Description of content view promotion changes during promotion of a content view. When used with a composite content view the underlying content views will be promoted with this description as well if using components.publish_all: True.	""	string
promote_force_yum_metadata_regeneration	no	Whether or not to force yum metadata regeneration while promoting a content view to a lifecycle environment/path.	False	boolean
promote_remove_previous_version	no	Whether or not to remove the previous content view version when promoting a new version of a content view. This requires that you have already promoted versions to all lifecycle environments where the previous version had been promoted (i.e. the previous version cannot still be attached to lifecycle environments). This restriction is the same whether you utilize the Satellite6 API, UI, or CLI.	False	boolean
keep_content_view_versions_count	no	Number of content view versions to keep. Do not use when specifying remove_content_view_versions or promote_remove_previous_version as it will probably fail or create semi-unpredictable results.	''	integer
promote_bypass_environment_path	no	Force promotion to a lifecycle environment/path outside of normal path restrictions (i.e. skip previous paths/environments)	False	boolean
remove_content_view_versions	no	Remove list of specified content view versions, which correspond to the version number ("Version" column of the Satellite6 content view's, "Versions" tab table). This requires that the requested versions to delete are not associated with any lifecycle environments presently, including Library, which is a Satellite6 requirement. If you would like to delete a content view version associated with the Library lifecycle environment, remove it from that environment first.	[]	list
components	yes	Settings for composite content views. Required only when working with composite content views	n/a	dictionary

sat6_content_views.components - Dictionary fields

Variable Name	Required	Description	Default Value	Type
publish_all	yes	Whether or not to publish new versions of all content views in a composite content view	False	boolean
content_views	no	List of content view version names and versions to publish the composite content view with	n/a	list of dictionaries

sat6_content_views.components.content_views - Dictionary fields

Variable Name	Required	Description	Default Value	Type
name	yes	Name of the content view in the composite content view	n/a	string
version	yes	Version number of the content view in the composite content view to publish the composite content view with	n/a	string

Special Statistical Reporting Variable

Variable Name	Description	Type
sat6_content_view_stats	A summary of all the actions completed by this role. This allows for tasks outside of this role, such as a task to send an email notification or log results elsewhere to obtain the summary values.	list

Playbook Example Use-Cases

---
- name: "Automated Satellite6 content view publish and promote"
  hosts: "localhost"
  gather_facts: False
  tasks:
    - name: "Manage Content Views"
      vars_files:
        - "vars/secrets.yml"
      include_role:
        name: "ansible-satellite6_manage_content_views"
      vars:
        sat6_fqdn: "huff-satellite.huffnet.org"
        sat6_user: "admin"
        sat6_pass: "{{ vaulted_sat6_pass }}"
        sat6_organization: "Huffnet"
        sat6_content_views:
          - name: "RHEL7"
            publish_new_version: True
            publish_description: "Latest content from Red Hat CDN"
            promote_to:
              - "RHEL7-Prod"
            promote_force_yum_metadata_regeneration: True
            promote_bypass_environment_path: True
          # Publish new version, promote to all lifecycle environments, remove old content view version
          - name: "RHEL6"
            publish_new_version: True
            promote_to:
              - "RHEL6-Dev"
              - "RHEL6-QA"
              - "RHEL6-Prod"
            promote_remove_previous_version: True
          # Remove specified content view versions
          - name: "RHEL7-HA Clustering"
            remove_content_view_versions:
              - "1.0"
              - "2.0"
              - "3.0"
          # publish new versions of all content views in a composite view and don't remove previous composite content view version, and promote to Dev
          - name: "RHEL7 composite"
            publish_new_version: True
            components:
              publish_all: True
            promote_to:
              - "RHEL7-Dev"
          # publish specific content view versions in a composite content view with publish and promote descriptions, remove previous composite content view version, and promote to 2 lifecycle environments
          - name: "RHEL7 composite2"
            publish_new_version: True
            publish_description: "Published by Ansible"
            promote_description: "Promoted by Ansible"
            promote_remove_previous_version: True
            components:
              publish_all: False
              content_views:
                - name: "RHEL7"
                  version: "3.0"
                - name: "RHEL7-HA Clustering"
                  version: "5.0"
            promote_to:
              - "RHEL7-Dev"
              - "RHEL7-QA"
          # Keep only 2 content view versions and remove the rest (can be used with promote and publish features if desired)
          - name: "RHEL7"
            keep_content_view_versions_count: "2"

License

MIT

Author Information

Andrew J. Huffman