katello_rapidnode.py is a script which automates the process of setting up one or more systems as capsules.

A Satellite 6 system must be available, and the following should be true:

1. A Red Hat Subscription is active. In other words, an appropriate manifest file has been downloaded from access.redhat.com and uploaded to the Satellite.

2. Repositories containing capsule packages are enabled and synced. The following are mandatory:

   • Red Hat Enterprise Linux X Server
   • Red Hat Satellite Capsule for RHEL X Server
   • Red Hat Satellite Tools for RHEL X Server

   The enabled and synced repositories should match the system the capsule is being installed on. For example, the "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Server RPMs x86_64 6.6" repository should be enabled if a capsule is being installed on a RHEL 6.6 x86_64 system.

3. A content view exists and has been published. It should provide the repositories from the previous step.

4. An activation key exists. It should provide the content view from the previous step.

Note: Please choose between entering a content view or an activation key. If both content view and activation key are entered in katello_rapidnode.ini, the script first attempts to register with content view and subsequently tries to register again with activation key.

katello_rapidnode.py can be run on any machine where:

• Python 2.7 or 3.x is installed. The Python development packages should also be installed, or else the extra modules listed in requirements.txt may not compile correctly. (On RPM-based systems, try yum install python-devel.)
• The modules listed in requirements.txt are installed. These modules may be installed via any of the usual methods: your package manager, manually, or with a PyPi helper such as easy_install or pip. (On many systems, pip install -r requirements.txt will work.)
• The katello_rapidnode.ini file is present and populated. The katello_rapidnode.sample.ini file serves as a template.
• (optional) The myrepofile.repo file is present and populated. The myrepofile.sample.repo file serves as a template.

Execute the katello_rapidnode.py script. The script will configure the [servers] listed in katello_rapidnode.ini via SSH.

Submitting a pull request on GitHub is an easy way to contribute. Please check your code with flake8 and pylint before submitting any contributions:

flake8 .
pylint *.py
./test.py

These tools are listed in requirements-optional.txt, which makes it easy to install them:

pip install -r requirements-optional.txt