Hi Everyone,
In my compagny, we try to deploy engine on 2 RHEL8 hosts we already installed.
We don't have direct internet access, so the RHEL8 hosts have been setup using some internal EL repo (using redhat satellite)
We have also duplicated internaly the necessary ovirt repositories, so all ovirt packages can be installed.
Now the blocking part is the deployment of the engine. Is it really possible to deploy an engine without having internet connection?
We tried several time but never succeeded.
I tried with ansible extra var "he_offline_deployment=true", naively thinking it will download necessary packages for the engine through the repositories already configured on the physical hosts (like the physical host act as proxy)
I also tried by specifying the ova file with he_appliance_ova=/usr/share/ovirt-engine-appliance/ovirt-engine-appliance-4.4-20211020135049.1.el8.ova
both options have also been tried together (--ansible-extra-vars=he_appliance_ova=/usr/share/ovirt-engine-appliance/ovirt-engine-appliance-4.4-20211020135049.1.el8.ova --ansible-extra-vars=he_offline_deployment=true)
But at the end, it seems the engine deployment process makes the engine to need to reach the ovirt internet repositories, as it always failed with:
2022-04-24 17:39:53,268+0100 ERROR otopi.ovirt_hosted_engine_setup.ansible_utils ansible_utils._process_output:110 fatal: [localhost -> 192.168.1.154]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "Failed to download metadata for repo 'ovirt-4.4-centos-ceph-pacific': Cannot download repomd.xml: Cannot download repodata/repomd.xml: All mirrors were tried", "rc": 1, "results": []}
FYI the pacific repo works fine when we download packages on physical hosts.
ANother thing to know is that before being able to use our internal repo present on our redhat satellite, a system need to install the satellite crtificate, and register to satellite.
it would be so nice if we can achieve a fully offline engine deploy (which mean no internet access at all, including the engine itself), but we start to lack of clues if it's really possible.
Here are all the ovirt packages installed on the physical hosts:
$rpm -qa | grep ovirt
ovirt-ansible-collection-1.6.5-1.el8.noarch
ovirt-imageio-daemon-2.3.0-1.el8.x86_64
ovirt-host-4.4.9-2.el8.x86_64
ovirt-engine-appliance-4.4-20211020135049.1.el8.x86_64
ovirt-imageio-common-2.3.0-1.el8.x86_64
python3-ovirt-engine-sdk4-4.4.15-1.el8.x86_64
ovirt-host-dependencies-4.4.9-2.el8.x86_64
ovirt-hosted-engine-setup-2.5.4-2.el8.noarch
ovirt-imageio-client-2.3.0-1.el8.x86_64
ovirt-vmconsole-host-1.0.9-1.el8.noarch
ovirt-provider-ovn-driver-1.2.34-1.el8.noarch
cockpit-ovirt-dashboard-0.15.1-1.el8.noarch
python3-ovirt-setup-lib-1.3.2-1.el8.noarch
ovirt-hosted-engine-ha-2.4.9-1.el8.noarch
ovirt-vmconsole-1.0.9-1.el8.noarch
thanks a lot in advance
