This module provides Custom Puppet Provider to handle registration and consumption of RedHat subscriptions using subscription-manager.

This module is a fork of the puppet-subscription_manager module by James Laska that was in turn derived from puppet-rhnreg_ks module by Gaël Chamoulaud. This fork provides an incompatible dedicated rhsm_config resource and separates repository management from control of the Yum overrides.

Due to various terminology differences between RHN Satellite, the upstream Katello project and the further upstream component projects of Candlepin, The Foreman, Puppet and Dogtag the names of properties and resources may be confusing.

• Katello Pools and Satellite Subscriptions are different things presented through the same underlying system resources. This module calls both 'pools.'
• Satellite, unlike Katello, will require attachment to such subscriptions whenever paid-for RedHat Network Channels are made available through a repository view.

Apache License, Version 2.0. Read the LICENSE file for details of the licensing.

• puppet-boolean on GitHub
• A good source for subscription-manager and its dependencies like EPEL.

• Gaël Chamoulaud (gchamoul at redhat dot com)
• James Laska (jlaska at redhat dot com)
• JD Powell (waveclaw at hotmail dot com)

See CONTRIBUTORS for others that have code consumed by this fork.

This module provides the standard install-config-service pattern. It also wraps the provided native resources with a convenience class to enable simple or complex deployment.

It is expected that any users not making use of default top-level import of the module will be interested in the native types for customization.

Some custom facts are provided.

A family of facts, similar to the rhsm_repo type, summarize the subscription state. These can return lists of data under facter 2.0.

• rhsm_available_repos
• rhsm_disabled_repos
• rhsm_enabled_repos

The repo facts make use of a simple caching mechanism using the facts.d directory to limit connections to the Katello or Satellite server. Like the katello-agent these only pull data once a day.

The once-per day schedule is currently a hard-coded value. However the cache can be invalidated by finding and removing the cache files.

The cache files should appear as normal YAML format external fact files. These facts may actually linger on after removing the rhsm module itself. Beware that the location of external fact files is different between Puppet and facter for older versions of Puppet like 2 or 3 and facter 1.x.

The certificate authority is part of the rhsm_config type but is very useful for operations in involving subscription management.

• rhsm_ca_name

Of course, a fact exists about the identity of the client as known locally.

• rhsm_identity

Setup to and register one CentOS 6 client to a Katello server using a public repository to obtain the agent.

# (Optionally) Place this code in a .pp file some where on your Puppet's modulepath
# such as a file named subscription_manager.pp in a module named repo.  
# The autoloader will be triggered by the rhsm module to search for this class.
class repo::subscription_manager {
  yumrepo { 'dgoodwin-subscription-manager':
  ensure              => 'present',
  baseurl             => 'https://copr-be.cloud.fedoraproject.org/results/dgoodwin/subscription-manager/epel-6-$basearch/',
  descr               => 'Copr repo for subscription-manager owned by dgoodwin',
  enabled             => '1',
  gpgcheck            => '1',
  gpgkey              =>  'https://copr-be.cloud.fedoraproject.org/results/dgoodwin/subscription-manager/pubkey.gpg',
    skip_if_unavailable => 'True',
  }
}

# Place this this in either a raw .pp manifest, a profile-like module or
# classify the node to require subscription_manager with these parameters in
# your ENC.
# Notice the explict call for the optional package repository to include.
class { 'subscription_manager':
    repo            => 'repo::subscription_manager',
    server_hostname => 'my_katello.example.com',
    activationkey   => '1-2-3-example.com-key',
    force           => true,
    org             => 'My_Example_Org',
  }
}

Register a RedHat Enterprise 7 or CentOS 7 node to the RedHat Network with Satellite 6.

Class { 'subscription_manager':
   org           => 'My_Company_Org_in_RHN',
   username      => 'some_rhn_special_user',
   password      => 'password123',
   autosubscribe => true,
   servicelevel  => 'STANDARD',
}

Putting the explicit password in the code is a bad idea. Using hiera-gpg or hiera-eyaml back-ends is strongly encouraged for this example.

The module adds the following new types:

• rhsm_register for managing RedHat Subscriptions
• rhsm_config for configurating RedHat Subscriptions
• rhsm_repo for managing RedHat Subscriptions to Repositories
• rhsm_override for managing the Subscrption yumrepo override cache
• rhsm_pool for managing RedHat Entitlement Pools (Satellite Subscription Collections)

• server_hostname: Specify a registration server hostname such as subscription.rhn.redhat.com.
• org: provide an organization to join (defaults to the Default_Organization )

On of either the activation key or a username and password combination is needed to register. Both cannot be provided and will cause an error.

• activationkey: The activation key to use when registering the system (cannot be used with username and password)
• password: The password to use when registering the system
• username: The username to use when registering the system

• pool: A specific license pool to attach the system to. Can include a default view using the formant pool-name/view-name.
• environment: which environment to join at registration time
• autosubscribe: Enable automatic subscription to repositories based on default Pool settings. Must be false when using an activation key unless specifiying a service leve.
• servicelevel: provide automatic attachment to a service level in Satellite. Not applicable to katello installations.
• 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.

Register clients to RedHat Subscription Management using an activation key:

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

Register clients to RedHat Subscription management using a username and password:

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

Register clients to RedHat Subscription management and attach to a specific license pool:

rhsm_register { 'subscription.rhn.example.com':
  username  => 'myusername',
  password  => 'mypassword',
  pool		  => 'mypoolid',
}

See the documentation at RedHat Support for details on the /etc/rhsm/rhsm.conf file.

The most important settings are given bellow

• server_hostname: Same as the title or name of the resource
• server_insecure: If HTTP is used or HTTPS with an untrusted certificate
• server_prefix: The subscription path. Usually /subscription for RHN and /rhsm for a Katello installation.
• rhsm_baseurl: The Content base URL in case the registration server has no content. An example would be https://cdn.redhat.com or https://katello.example.com/pulp/repos

rhsmcerd is not the same as Katello's goferd.

rhsm_config { 'katello.example.com':
    server_hostname             => 'katello.example.com',
    server_insecure             => false,
    server_port                 => 443,
    server_prefix               => '/rhsm',
    server_ssl_verify_depth     => 3,
    rhsm_baseurl                => 'https://katello.example.com/pulp/repos',
    rhsm_ca_cert_dir            => '/etc/rhsm/ca/',
    rhsm_consumercertdir        => '/etc/pki/consumer',
    rhsm_entitlementcertdir     => '/etc/pki/entitlement',
    rhsm_full_refresh_on_yum    => true,
    rhsm_manage_repos           => true,
    rhsm_pluginconfdir          => '/etc/rhsm/pluginconf_d',
    rhsm_plugindir              => '/usr/share/rhsm-plugins',
    rhsm_productcertdir         => '/etc/pki/product',
    rhsm_repo_ca_cert           => '/etc/rhsm/ca/',
    rhsm_report_package_profile => 1,
    rhsmcertd_autoattachinterval => 1440,
}

If absolutely necessary the individual yum repositories can be filtered.

• ensure: Valid values are present, absent. Default value is present.
• name: The name of the repository registration to filter.

Example of a repository from the Server

rhsm_repo { 'rhel-6-server-java-rpms':
  ensure        => present, # equal to the enabled property
  url           => 'https://katello.example.com/pulp/repos/abc-corp/production/reg-key-1/content/dist/rhel/server/6/6Server/$basearch/java-repo/os',
  content_label => 'rhel-6-java-rpms',
  id            => 'rhel-6-java-rpms',
  name          => 'RedHat Enterprise Linux 6 Server - Java (RPMs)',
  repo_type     => channel,
}

This is returned by the Puppet resource command but it not managable in a meaningful way through the type.

rhsm_repo { 'rhel-server6-epel':
  ensure        => present, # equal to the enabled property
  updated       => 2015-07-17T14:26:35.064+0000,
  created       => 2015-07-17T14:26:35.064+0000,
  content_label => 'rhel-server6-epel'
  repo_type     => override,
}

Subscriptions to use RHN are sold as either individual entitlements or a pools of entitlements. A given server registered to a Satellite 6 or Katello system will consume at least 1 entitlement from a Pool.

This subscription to the Pool is what enables the set of repositories to be made available on the server for further subscription.

While this type is mostly useful for exporting the registration information in detail it can also be used to force switch registrations for selected clients.

• name: Unique Textual description of the Pool
• ensure: Is this pool absent or present?
• provides: Textual information about the Pool, usually same as the name.
• sku: Stock Keeping Unit, usually for inventory tracking
• account: Account number for this Pool of Subscriptions
• contract: Contract details, if known
• serial: Any serial number that is associated with the pool
• id: ID Hash of the Pool
• active: Is this subscription in use at the moment?
• quantity_used: How many is used? Often licenses are sold by CPU or core so is it possible for a single server to consume several subscriptions.
• service_type: type of service, usually relevant to official RedHat Channels
• service_level: level of service such as STANDARD, PREMIUM or SELF-SUPPORT
• status_details: Status detail string
• subscription_type: Subscription - type
• starts: Earliest date and time the subscription is valid for
• ends: When does this subscription expire
• system_type: Is this a phyiscal, container or virtual system?

rhsm_pool { '1a2b3c4d5e6f1234567890abcdef12345':
  name              => 'Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux',
  ensure            => present,
  provides          => 'EPEL',
  sku               => 1234536789012,
  contract          => 'Fancy Widgets, LTD',
  account           => '1234-12-3456-0001',
  serial            => 1234567890123456789,
  id                => 1a2b3c4d5e6f1234567890abcdef12345,
  active            => true,
  quantity_used     => 1,
  service_level     => 'STANDARD',
  service_type      => 'EOL',
  status_details    => 'expired',
  subscription_type => 'permanent',
  starts            => 06/01/2015,
  ends              => 05/24/2045,
  system_type       => physical,
}

For released version the module can be installed with the Puppet module tool from the Puppet Forge.

  puppet module install waveclaw-subscription_manager

This will install adrian-boolean and puppetlabs-transaction as dependencies.

For pre-release code the GitHub repository can be cloned.

In your puppet modules directory:

    git clone https://github.com/jlaska/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.

Please file any issues or suggestions on on GitHub

Please follow the example42 development guidelines.

Pull requests and bug reports via GitHub are welcomed.

For Pull Requests please:

• puppet-lint code
• provide rSpec tests if possible: code that sets tests on fire won't be merged
• Follow the module style naming standards

For a bug report please include or link:

• Code that triggers the error
• Output of facter -p from the system where the error occurs
• Relevant error logs
• Any other information needed to understand the error

• What did you do (terminal session logs, etc)?
• What was expected?
• What actually happened?
• When did it start happening?
• Is it still happening or happening all the time?

None of this guarantees a solution but at the least it can warn others.