Spacewalk Server Cookbook

This cookbook installs and configures a node as a Spacewalk
server.
It also sets up Errata support if you like.

Requirements

• RHEL / CentOS > 6

Recipes

Include spacewalk-server::default for basic Spacewalk installation.

Include spacewalk-server::ubuntu for setting up repo-sync and errata import for Ubuntu channels.

Include spacewalk-server::rhel for setting up repo-sync and errata import for CentOS/RHEL channels. ( write this recipe and PR please )

Include spacewalk-server::iptables to configure iptables for Spacewalk.

Attributes

default['spacewalk']['server']['db']['type'] = 'postgres'
default['spacewalk']['server']['errata'] = true # configure errata import scripts+crons
default['spacewalk']['hostname'] = node['hostname']

# Answer file configuration
default['spacewalk']['server']['admin_email'] = 'root@localhost'
default['spacewalk']['server']['ssl']['org'] = 'Spacewalk Org'
default['spacewalk']['server']['ssl']['org_unit'] = 'spacewalk'
default['spacewalk']['server']['ssl']['city'] = 'My City'
default['spacewalk']['server']['ssl']['state'] = 'My State'
default['spacewalk']['server']['ssl']['country'] = 'US'
default['spacewalk']['server']['ssl']['password'] = 'spacewalk'
default['spacewalk']['server']['ssl']['email'] = 'root@localhost'
default['spacewalk']['server']['ssl']['config_vhost'] = 'Y'
default['spacewalk']['server']['enable_tftp'] = 'Y'

# ::ubuntu configuration
# login for Spacewalk
default['spacewalk']['sync']['user'] = 'admin'
default['spacewalk']['sync']['password'] = 'admin'
# the channels to be synced. need to manually create them in Spacewalk for the crons to work
default['spacewalk']['sync']['channels'] = {'precise' => 'http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/precise/main/binary-amd64/',
                                            'precise-updates' => 'http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/precise-updates/main/binary-amd64/',
                                            'precise-security' => 'http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/precise-security/main/binary-amd64/'
                                           }
# channels to be excluded from errata, like base which doesnt have updates
default['spacewalk']['errata']['exclude-channels'] = 'precise'

Author

Phil Schuler http://devops-blog.net

Based on https://github.com/yacn/spacewalk-server-chef by "Yet Another Clever Name" (admin@yacn.pw)