Unfortunately Puppet is not able to handle the installation of Yum package groups like “Base” or “compat-libraries” and so forth. This is due to the fact that Puppet is currently not able to verify if all packages in a package group are installed after a Puppet run. Continue reading
Satellite 6.1.7 shipped
Today Red Hat shipped Satellite 6.1.7. The corresponding RHSA for Satellite is RHSA-2016:0174, for Satellite Tools it is RHBA-2016:0173.
Happy upgrading 🙂
Authenticate Apple clients against FreeIPA
This is something I will test out during the next days. Read this Red Hat article to know how to realize this scenario.
Satellite 6 network communication matrix
Red Hat DevOps Blog
If you are interested in DevOps then read Red Hat`s DevOps blog.
Satellite 6 product page with release infos
Please find the Red Hat Satellite 6 product page here with release notes and more relevant informations.
Satellite 6 Healthcheck script
The following script can be used for Satellite 6 health check: https://github.com/boogiespook/sat6_healthCheck
More information regarding Satellite 6 health check can be found in this Red Hat KCS article.
Configure SUDO schema in LDAP or Active Directory
This article describes very well above mentioned topic. Afterwards you should be able to manage sudo rules centrally in LDAP or Active Directory and access them through sssd for example. Have fun while reading.
Policy based routing on RHEL
If you configure multiple network cards in your RHEL machine with more than one gateway then you can use “policy based routing” to configure the network traffic in a way where the traffic will leave the same interface where the traffic came from.
This procedure is described in this Red Hat KCS article.
I also created a Puppet module to configure policy based routing on RHEL 6 / 7. Currently this module does not handle Bond or VLAN tagged interfaces. You can find my module here.
Test and fix your Puppet code with Puppet Lint
Puppet Lint is a nice tool to check the syntax of your Puppet code. Common errors can be fixed directly with Puppet Lint. It can also be included to CI tools like Jenkins if you want to check your Puppet code during a Jenkins build job for example.
Find out more about Puppet Lint here.