Install Foreman & Katello (Pulp+Candelpin) on CentOS 7.x – Redhat Satellite 6 Alternative

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Install Katello on CentOS-7

In previous post we learned about RedHat Satellite 6 and its Open Source Alternative – Foreman & Katello (Pulp+Candelpin)

 

Katello brings the full power of content management alongside the provisioning and configuration capabilities of Foreman.

   
Katello foreman

Katello foreman

   

In this post we learn how to install  RedHat Satellite 6 and its Open Source Alternative – Foreman & Katello (Pulp+Candelpin) on CentOS 7.x

    Pre-requisites :   1. VM with 8GB and more RAM and at least 2 cores of CPU 2. VM with CentOS7 installed  

Let’s the Installation of Katello.

 

Set the hostname and add an entry in /etc/hosts :

  [root@katello ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS Linux release 7.7.1908 (Core) [root@centos07 ~]# hostnamectl set-hostname “katello.hostbread.com” [root@centos07 ~]# echo “192.168.0.125 katello.hostbread.com katello” >> /etc/hosts [root@centos07 ~]# cat /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4 localhost4.localdomain4 ::1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost6 localhost6.localdomain6 192.168.0.125 katello.hostbread.com katello [root@centos07 ~]#  

Update yum and reboot :

  [root@centos07 ~]# yum update -y ; reboot   After reboot we can see the new hostname is set as  katello.hostbread.com [root@katello ~]# hostname katello.hostbread.com   Install repositories which are required for katello :   [root@katello ~]# yum -y localinstall http://fedorapeople.org/groups/katello/releases/yum/3.10/katello/el7/x86_64/katello-repos-latest.rpm   [root@katello ~]# yum -y localinstall http://yum.theforeman.org/releases/1.20/el7/x86_64/foreman-release.rpm   [root@katello ~]# yum -y localinstall https://yum.puppetlabs.com/puppetlabs-release-pc1-el-7.noarch.rpm   [root@katello ~]# yum -y localinstall http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm [root@katello ~]# yum -y install foreman-release-scl python2-django Install katello : [root@katello ~]#  yum -y install katello We will use foreman-installer to setup katello : [root@katello ~]# foreman-installer –scenario katello     Once the installation is completed, we will be presented with login url and credentials as given below :    
Katello

Katello

    Next open the browser and access the katello link : http://katello.hostbread.com     Login with credentials which were provided when the Katello installation was completed.   We will be presented with screen as given below :  
Katello step 2

Katello step 2

      We can now navigate and check all features of Katello :  
Katello step 3

Katello step 3

    Hope you learned and enjoyed this article. In the next article we will learn the configuration part of Katello – Foreman (An opensource alternative to RedHat Satellite 6)     Subscribe and follow Golibrary on Facebook and Linkedin to get all the updates.      

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