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Cobbler 3.2.2 from epel-release vanilla btw, with all dnf updates
However, since then, I discovered 3.3 lacks a web interface, which is likely a show stopper for me.
and this is also a showstopper for the EPEL maintainer of cobbler
so I have 2 questions:
- Does the web interface removal impacts the use of the cobbler ansible module ? it makes use of the web API I think
- is the 3.2 branch going to have more releases ? I would consider backporting some stuff from master to 3.2 if that is the case
Check the wiki please
There is an article on how to run the tests
Sooo regarding the Web Interface... It turns out Cobbler can do more then I can handle on my own. I have put a lot of time in starting to create the XMLRPC API and the API Client in Angular but so far I am not there to present something usable. However feel free to look at the Draft PR I created...
In regard to 3.2.x releases... No I haven't planned anything there because of the huge changes I made on master I personally believe that it is not reasonable to try doing a port. I would love to see more activity in fixing bugs on master so we can finally push out the next 3.3.x release.
@egotthold:matrix.org So I guess 3.3 is definitely a nogo for me and probably others, until at least http://cobbler_host/cobbler_api is usable. And if 3.2 is frozen and won't see a new release, then I'll have to lobby the EPEL maintainer to include patches, which is less likely to happen if it's not coming from upstream SCM. I do need cobbler to be able to install CentOS 6, 7, 8 and 9 and also to be able to pilot it from ansible. None of the cobbler releases matches both criterion.
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Here's a link to the ansible cobbler module : https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/c18fdb43d7ca09996773b61a882233fcd54c459c/plugins/modules/remote_management/cobbler/cobbler_system.py#L241
look for something similar in terraform
Terraform looks at url = "http://cobbler.example.com/cobbler_api" @xavierba. I think that makes it XMLRPC
so far, I think all I need atop of release32 branch is https://github.com/xavierba/cobbler/tree/32_backport
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I will give that a try on Thursday
I'll probably look into it later
But I see that the Webinterface is eagerly awaited. I will see that I put more priority in my free time onto it.
get-loaders is broken with 3.2.2, as the url from which the loaders are pulled as been removed. Unless the page has been restored since I built my new cobbler server. I had to fetch the loaders from my old cobbler server. Although I did noticed this is mentioned in a couple of places, I have not yet really looked into the discussions and patches.
@xavierba, yes I'm going to try to get v3.2.x working too for the time being, and yes main obstacle is removal of loaders. Hopefully will be as simple as changing dlcontent.py's
content_server = https://github.com/hbokh/cobbler-loaders per: https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/issues/2660#issuecomment-859766544 I'll post if\when I get working, appreciate if you could do same
I completely understand that @egotthold:matrix.org rather want to move forward rather than backporting stuff, but with the current state of the webinterface and especially the xmlrpc, 3.3 is unsuitable for anyone in need of cobbler/terraform. Hence, the only hopefully temporary solution is to backport stuff to 3.2.
@holmesb I now see get-loaders has been patched out of the latest EPEL 8 package. But still I need to investigate/document how to properly set this up from the distro supplied loaders. And get the Fedora/EPEL package fixed if possible. Thanks for the links, it'll be useful.
@holmesb , I don't know what your own issues are, but here is a first try at it for my own purpose: https://github.com/xavierba/cobbler/tree/32_backport
completely untested
@holmesb: Could you please create a bugreport in the terraform repository for this?
Exactly this is what I am saying. And if that is the case we can very quickly change the client in a way that it doesn't leverage web-API endpoints...
Hey Cobbler community. I believe I mentioned this back in September, but I finally got around to developing a Chef cookbook for setting up a Cobbler server using the latest version available in EPEL (flexibility may be added in the future allowing people to use their own Cobbler rpms). In it's current state, it can build a basic Cobbler server and make it ready to add and deploy systems. Future state is outlined under "To-do" in the repo's README. There's much to do and I'm enjoying working on this. https://github.com/ericchambers1940/cobbler3-cookbook
@ericchambers1940: Thanks for contributing this! If you deem this production ready I would glady add it to our documentation and if you are interested in donating it to the Cobbler Namespace under a license of choice I would be very happy. But even the fact that you made it open source is superb! :)
FYI @egotthold, Terraform works fine with Cobbler v3.3.x :-) Hopefully my PRs that make the provider compatible will be merged: cobbler/terraform-provider-cobbler#10 & cobbler/cobblerclient#6
@holmesb: Saw it. Left a comment on the first PR. Thanks a lot for both PRs! :)
Using a freshly check out of 3.3.1, having issues with cobbler system add. The error is : cobbler system add --name=test --profile=rhel79-test
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/cobbler", line 35, in <module>
sys.exit(app.main())
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/cobbler/cli.py", line 1344, in main
rc = cli.run(sys.argv)
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/cobbler/cli.py", line 892, in run
self.object_command(object_type, object_action)
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/cobbler/cli.py", line 977, in object_command
network_interface_fields, settings, object_action)
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/cobbler/cli.py", line 724, in add_options_from_fields
_add_parser_option_from_field(parser, field, settings)
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/cobbler/cli.py", line 695, in _add_parser_option_from_field
raise Exception("field %s default value (%s) is not listed in choices (%s)" % (name, default, str(choices)))
Exception: field power_type default value (ipmilanplus) is not listed in choices (['amt_ws', 'apc', 'apc_snmp', 'bladecenter', 'brocade', 'cisco_mds', 'cisco_ucs', 'compute', 'drac5', 'eaton_snmp', 'emerson', 'eps', 'evacuate', 'heuristics_ping', 'hpblade', 'ibmblade', 'idrac', 'ifmib', 'ilo', 'ilo2', 'ilo3', 'ilo3_ssh', 'ilo4', 'ilo4_ssh', 'ilo5', 'ilo5_ssh', 'ilo_moonshot', 'ilo_mp', 'ilo_ssh', 'imm', 'intelmodular', 'ipdu', 'ipmilan', 'kdump', 'mpath', 'redfish', 'rhevm', 'rsa', 'rsb', 'sbd', 'scsi', 'virt', 'vmware_rest', 'vmware_soap', 'wti', 'xvm'])
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/cobbler", line 35, in <module>
sys.exit(app.main())
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/cobbler/cli.py", line 1344, in main
rc = cli.run(sys.argv)
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/cobbler/cli.py", line 892, in run
self.object_command(object_type, object_action)
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/cobbler/cli.py", line 977, in object_command
network_interface_fields, settings, object_action)
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/cobbler/cli.py", line 724, in add_options_from_fields
_add_parser_option_from_field(parser, field, settings)
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/cobbler/cli.py", line 695, in _add_parser_option_from_field
raise Exception("field %s default value (%s) is not listed in choices (%s)" % (name, default, str(choices)))
Exception: field power_type default value (ipmilanplus) is not listed in choices (['amt_ws', 'apc', 'apc_snmp', 'bladecenter', 'brocade', 'cisco_mds', 'cisco_ucs', 'compute', 'drac5', 'eaton_snmp', 'emerson', 'eps', 'evacuate', 'heuristics_ping', 'hpblade', 'ibmblade', 'idrac', 'ifmib', 'ilo', 'ilo2', 'ilo3', 'ilo3_ssh', 'ilo4', 'ilo4_ssh', 'ilo5', 'ilo5_ssh', 'ilo_moonshot', 'ilo_mp', 'ilo_ssh', 'imm', 'intelmodular', 'ipdu', 'ipmilan', 'kdump', 'mpath', 'redfish', 'rhevm', 'rsa', 'rsb', 'sbd', 'scsi', 'virt', 'vmware_rest', 'vmware_soap', 'wti', 'xvm'])
The error will also happen just doing "cobbler system add --help"