Next up will be provisioning new servers automatically.
Allocate DNS proxy service
Navigate to Infrastructure -> Domains.
On the top navbar, ensure “Any Organisation” and “Any Location”. Thus is due to the Katello server now having command over the domain yet.
Click on the domain (in our case ics.dmz), click on the DNS Proxy dropdown, and select the Katello server.
The click submit.
Networking
Navigate to Infrastructure -> Subnets and click the “Create Subnet” button. Run through all the tabs (before hitting Submit) and update with the relevant info.
Allocate the domain as configured in the previous step
Parameters can be left blank for now
Allocate the correct organization and location as relevant.
Then click on Submit.
Create a compute resource
Install the VMWare package
yum install foreman-vmware
systemctl restart httpdNavigate to Infrastructure -> Compute Resource, then click on “Create Compute Resource” button.
Select VMWare as provider, and fill in all relevant text boxes. Click on the “Load Data centers” button to get a list of data centers, which also provides a nice way to test connectivity.
Assign the correct Location and Organisation by clicking the tabs and allocating the necessary. Then, click on “Submit”.
Allocating VMWare Images for Foreman
Provisioning machines via Foreman can happen in two ways, the traditional method of booting via TFTP and doing an automated install, or by provisioning a server from a template.
Registering an existing VMWare template to Katello
From the compute resource screen, click on the “Create Image” button. Fill in the relevant data.
You are now able to provision CentOS servers either over a network install, or via the template!
If you plan to have machines provisioned over network and want to make use of a custom LVM partition, you need to add a partition template.
To do this, navigate to Hosts -> Partition Tables. For a CentOS partition, click on the clone button next to “Kickstart default”
Replace the existing partition info with this:
<%#
kind: ptable
name: Kickstart default
oses:
- CentOS
- Fedora
- RedHat
%>
zerombr
clearpart --all --initlabel
part /boot --fstype=ext3 --size=500
part pv.01 --size=11000 --grow
volgroup vg00 pv.01
logvol swap --fstype swap --vgname=vg00 --name=swap --size=5000
logvol /var/log --vgname=vg00 --name=var_log --size=5000
logvol / --vgname=vg00 --name=root --size=1 --growAdd it to locations and organisations and click submit. Now navigate to Hosts -> Operating Systems. Select the O/S you'd like to have the partition option to, click on the "Partition Table" tab, and add the partition.Adding support for Windows server provisioning
There is a very good blog post for that https://ramoni.com.br/2018/10/02/rlabs-provisioning-windows-with-foreman-on-vmware-from-template/