I believe there's a bug here: https://github.com/oVirt/ovirt-ansible-collection/blob/master/roles/engine_setup/tasks/main.yml which besides the he_offline_deployment condition it relies on ovirt_engine_setup_perform_upgrade which is never passed to from the hosted_engine_setup role.

If he can post the full log, it will be easier to understand where the issue is and why does ansible triggers yum repos.

Another way to workaround it is to create a pre engine setup hook as ansible task and use it to configure the repos on the engine vm that it will use the local repos and not reach the internet at any point.

On Thu, Apr 28, 2022 at 8:55 PM Strahil Nikolov via Users <users@ovirt.org> wrote:

Theoretically everything is possible.

In this situation I can recommend you to open an issue as he_offline_deployment=true should really mean offline.

Currently you can modify the Ansible code on the system and modify the repos pointing to your Satellite.

Best Regards,

Strahil Nikolov

On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 12:02, vk@itiviti.com

<vk@itiviti.com> wrote:

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

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