[ovirt-users] How to automate the ovirt host deployment?

[Arman Khalatyan]

After few days playing with ovirt+foreman I can now deploy bare metal with
foreman and attach it to ovirt.
Over all it works, but there are some points to mention to beginners like
me:

a) To make a auto discovery ,ovirt and deployment working together one
should enable in "foreman-installer -i" following modules:
1. [\u2713] Configure foreman
2. [\u2713] Configure foreman_cli
3. [\u2713] Configure foreman_proxy
4. [\u2713] Configure puppet
6. [\u2713] Configure foreman_plugin_bootdisk
10. [\u2713] Configure foreman_plugin_dhcp_browser
12. [\u2713] Configure foreman_plugin_discovery
21. [\u2713] Configure foreman_plugin_setup
23. [\u2713] Configure foreman_plugin_templates
28. [\u2713] Configure foreman_compute_ovirt
33. [\u2713] Configure foreman_proxy_plugin_discovery

b) next follow the documentation:
http://www.ovirt.org/develop/release-management/features/foreman/foremanintegration/

You should be able to see the hosts from ovirt interface.
I was not able to add an auto-discovered hosts to ovirt it always trows an
exception: Failed to add Host <UNKNOWN> (User: admin at internal). probably it
is a bug.

In order to add the hosts: first I provisioned the auto-discovered hosts
with foreman to centos7 then over the gui in . Important here to add into
installation template the path to ovirt repository:

yum install http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/yum-repo/ovirt-release36.rpm

If your provisioned host does not know the repository you cannot add the
foreman host from the ovirt gui.




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 Dr. Arman Khalatyan  eScience -SuperComputing
 Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP)
 An der Sternwarte 16, 14482 Potsdam, Germany

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On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 8:03 PM, Arman Khalatyan <arm2arm at gmail.com> wrote:

> Nice! Finally no sad face anymore:)
> I am testing centos 7.2, with foreman 1.11
>
> Testing  now with unattended installations on multiple vms. Works like a
> charm:)
> Later will try on baremetals.
> I need to learn how to write templates.
>
>
> Den 30 maj 2016 22:22 skrev Arman Khalatyan <arm2arm at gmail.com>:
> >
> > Sorry for the previous empty email.
> >
> > I was testing foreman plugins for ovirt deploy. They are some how
> broken. The foreman-install --enable-ovirt-provisioning-plugin breaks the
> foreman installation. I need to dig deeper:(
>
> Don't know what distribution you're using but setting all up manually
> showed me that Foreman needs to be at at least 11 for the plugin to work.
> Otherwise it behaved in the same way for me; all fine and well until the
> provision plugin was installed and then *sadface* :)
>
> Get Foreman up to version 11 and you'll be fine, is my guess.
>
> /K
> >
> > Am 28.05.2016 4:07 nachm. schrieb "Yaniv Kaul" <ykaul at redhat.com>:
> >>
> >> >
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sat, May 28, 2016 at 12:50 PM, Arman Khalatyan <arm2arm at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> >>
> >
> > >> Thank you for the hint. I will try next week.
> > >> Foreman looks quite complex:)
> > >
> > >
> > > I think this is an excellent suggestion - Foreman, while may take a
> while to set up, will also be extremely useful to provision and manage not
> only hosts, but VMs later on!
> > >
> >>
> >> >> I would prefer simple Python script with 4 lines: add, install,
> setup networks and activate.
> >
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > You can look at ovirt-system-tests , the testing suite for oVirt, on
> Python code for the above.
> > > Y.
> > >
> >>
> >>
> > >>
> > >> Am 27.05.2016 6:51 nachm. schrieb "Karli Sjöberg" <
> karli.sjoberg at slu.se>:
> >>
> >> >>>
> >
> > >>>
> > >>> Den 27 maj 2016 18:41 skrev Arman Khalatyan <arm2arm at gmail.com>:
> > >>> >
> > >>> > Hi, I am looking some method to automate the host deployments in a
> cluster environment.
> > >>> > Assuming we have 20 nodes with centos 7 eth0/eth1 configured. Is
> it possible to automate installation with ovirt-sdk?
> > >>> > Are there some examples  ?
> > >>>
> > >>> You could do that, or look into full life cycle management with The
> Foreman.
> > >>>
> > >>> /K
> > >>>
> > >>> >
> > >>> > Thanks,
> > >>> > Arman.
> > >>
> > >>
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