Chris O'Regan wrote:
Interesting, I did not notice that on the wiki when I was hunting for information this afternoon.
Thanks for the heads up! I'll put it up there.
It was there, I just didn't notice it. :-S
Hrmm...my "ks_mirror" directory on my dev box is pretty much empty (just a "config" directory). Am I missing something? What should be in there?
That's the directory used by "cobbler import", if you were sourcing trees externally (without mirroring them) this data would not be in use.
Ah...I experimented with "cobbler import" but since I am already using mrepo I did not have the need for it.
Cobbler has quite a few facilities to deal with yum repositories (all thanks to the bits behind yum utils), so there is not a need for mrepo anymore in most cases.
Is this going to replicate my kickstarts and snippets, too, or do I have to find a way of sharing them? If the latter, can those be put onto NFS safely? What mechanism is used for replication?
Yes, it can help move over as little or as much as you want. See "cobbler replicate --help"in 1.2.4. If it can't do something you want, let me know, and we can see about adding it.
Hrmm...I am still using v1.0.3...I'm way behind the times! Time to upgrade... :-)
Replication is achieved using Cobbler XMLRPC for basic data, and files
This would be the read-only listener (tcp/25151), correct?
Correct.
are transferred using scp/rsync. Usage of ssh-agent before cobbler replicate is therefore recommended unless you are using authorized_keys.
That's perfect; we use ssh for a number of tasks similar to this already. Is it possible to specify a key to use? We like to lock down a key to a specific command, host, etc.
ssh-add should take care of this. If you want to put that inside a shell script that wraps cobbler replicate that might work for you.
I still have some questions regarding cobbler's architecture, but this gives me a better understanding. Thanks!
Feel free to start another thread and ask away as needed, that's what we're here for!
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