Chapter 8. Using a Red Hat Image Builder image for provisioning
In Satellite, you can enable integration with the RHEL web console to perform actions and monitor your hosts. Using the RHEL web console, you can access Red Hat Image Builder and build images that you can then upload to an HTTP server and use this image to provision hosts. When you configure Satellite for image provisioning, Anaconda installer partitions disks, downloads and mounts the image and copies files over to a host. The preferred image type is TAR.
Ensure that your blueprint to build the TAR image includes a kernel package.
For more information about integrating the RHEL web console with Satellite, see Host management and monitoring using the RHEL web console in Managing hosts.
Prerequisites
- An existing TAR image created using Red Hat Image Builder.
Procedure
- On Satellite, create a custom product, add a custom file repository to this product, and upload the image to the repository. For more information, see Importing Individual ISO Images and Files in Managing content.
- In the Satellite web UI, navigate to Configure > Host Groups, and select the host group that you want to use.
- Click the Parameters tab, and then click Add Parameter.
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In the Name field, enter
kickstart_liveimg. - From the Type list, select string.
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In the Value field, enter the absolute path or a relative path in the following format
custom/product/repository/image_namethat points to the exact location where you store the image. - Click Submit to save your changes.
You can use this image for bare-metal provisioning and provisioning using a compute resource. For more information about bare-metal provisioning, see Chapter 5, Using PXE to provision hosts. For more information about provisioning with different compute resources, see the relevant chapter for the compute resource that you want to use.
