Hi there ✋!

We can use this ansible role to perform bulk registration to Red Hat Satellite/Capsule server by passing the hostname/IP list in inventory file.

Requirements

To execute this role successfully, we need to pass below variable values. First, we need to ensure that either we want to use root user or non-root user on client system side.

 

Variables are:

ansible_ssh_user: Enter ssh username (Present on client system)
ansible_ssh_pass: Enter ssh password to take the ssh
Hostname: Enter Red Hat Satellite/Capsule server hostname
Activation_Key: Enter Activation Key Name
Organization_Name: Enter Organization Name (In which you want to register host on satellite server)

 

There are three ways to perform bulk host registration to Red Hat Satellite/Capsule server using bulk-registration ansible role.

• 🌏 We can define these variable values either globally(For all hosts) in "vars/main.yml" file.

• 🖥️ If we want to pass the variable values for per host in inventory file, syntax should be as below in inventory file.

[host_list]
client.example.com    ansible_ssh_user=SSH_USERNAME ansible_ssh_pass=SSH_PASSWORD Hostname=SATELLITE/CAPSULE_FQDN Activation_Key=KEY_NAME Organization_Name=ORG_NAME

If all hosts in a group share a variable value, we can apply that variable to an entire group at once.

[host_list]
client1.example.com
client2.example.com

[host_list:vars]
ansible_ssh_user=SSH_USERNAME 
ansible_ssh_pass=SSH_PASSWORD 
Hostname=SATELLITE/CAPSULE_FQDN 
Activation_Key=KEY_NAME 
Organization_Name=ORG_NAME

• 👨‍💻 If we want to pass the variable values at the same moment of ansible role execution, we can use below ansible playbook.

- hosts: all
  gather_facts: no
  vars_prompt:
    - name: ansible_ssh_user
      prompt: Enter ssh username (Present on client system)
      private: no
      
    - name: ansible_ssh_pass
      prompt: Enter ssh password to take the ssh
      private: no
      
    - name: Hostname
      prompt: Enter Red Hat Satellite/Capsule server hostname
      private: no
      
    - name: Activation_Key
      prompt: Enter Activation Key Name
      private: no
      
    - name: Organization_Name
      prompt: Enter Organization Name (In which you want to register host on satellite server)
      private: no
      
  roles:
    - bulk_registration

  

If you required any help, please feel free to reach out to me on email. Many Thanks 🙂

Author Information

Name: Nikhil Jain   Email: nikhjain@redhat.com