Ian Ballou ianballou

Katello Containerized Environments with foremanctl

Development Environment Setup

Prerequisites

vagrant, libvirt, vagrant-libvirt installed
foremanctl repository cloned

Note: generated by Claude Code.

Package Persistence Field Implementation for bootc Systems

Overview

This document explains the implementation of a new persistence field in subscription-manager's package profile functionality. This field helps distinguish between different types of package installations on ostree-based systems like image mode machines.

	centos9-katello-devel:
	primary: true
	box: centos9-stream
	cpus: 4
	memory: 18000
	ansible:
	playbook: 'playbooks/katello_devel.yml'
	group: 'devel'
	variables:
	ssh_forward_agent: true

	<%#
	kind: provision
	name: Kickstart Default bootc - Trimmed
	model: ProvisioningTemplate
	oses:
	- AlmaLinux
	- CentOS
	- CentOS_Stream
	- Fedora
	- RedHat

	As the vagrant user:

	$ npm install -g @modelcontextprotocol/server-postgres
	$ claude mcp add postgres-server npx @modelcontextprotocol/server-postgres "postgresql://katello:@localhost:5432/katello"

	Example use:

	$ claude
	╭───────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
	│ ✻ Welcome to Claude Code! │

	Jan 8 21:30:26 centos9-katello-devel-stable pulpcore-api[3002]: File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pulp_container/app/registry_api.py", line 680, in get
	Jan 8 21:30:26 centos9-katello-devel-stable pulpcore-api[3002]: response = super().get(request)
	Jan 8 21:30:26 centos9-katello-devel-stable pulpcore-api[3002]: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
	Jan 8 21:30:26 centos9-katello-devel-stable pulpcore-api[3002]: File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pulp_container/app/registry_api.py", line 639, in get
	Jan 8 21:30:26 centos9-katello-devel-stable pulpcore-api[3002]: with storage.open(manifest.config_blob._artifacts.get().file.name) as file:
	Jan 8 21:30:26 centos9-katello-devel-stable pulpcore-api[3002]: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
	Jan 8 21:30:26 centos9-katello-devel-stable pulpcore-api[3002]: File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/django/db/models/manager.py", line 87, in manager_method
	Jan 8 21:30:26 centos9-katello-devel-stable pulpcore-api[3002]: retur

	{
	"bootc.booted.image": " quay.io/centos-bootc/centos-bootc:stream10",
	"bootc.booted.version": "stream10.20241202.0",
	"bootc.booted.digest": "sha256:54256a998f0c62e16f3927c82b570f90bd8449a52e03daabd5fd16d6419fd572",
	"bootc.staged.image": null,
	"bootc.staged.version": null,
	"bootc.staged.digest": null,
	"bootc.rollback.image": "quay.io/centos-bootc/centos-bootc:stream10",
	"bootc.rollback.version": "stream10.20241107.0",
	"bootc.rollback.digest": "sha256:9ed49e9b189f5dae5a01ea9abdcef0884616300b565d32061aea619f2e916be3",

	uuid=$(uuidgen)
	short=$(hostname -s)
	domain=YOUR.DOMAIN
	echo "{\"dmi.system.uuid\": \"${uuid}\"}" > /etc/rhsm/facts/uuid.facts
	hostnamectl set-hostname ${short}.${uuid%%-*}.${domain}
	subscription-manager clean
	subscription-manager register --activationkey YOUR_AK --org YOUR_ORG

	BEAKER_SETFILE=centos8-64 BEAKER_HYPERVISOR=vagrant_libvirt BEAKER_PROVISION=yes BEAKER_DESTROY=no bundle exec rspec spec/acceptance/my_test_spec.rb

	#BEAKER_DESTROY=no leaves the VM running
	#BEAKER_PROVISION=no allows for VM reuse