Full documentation is at https://www.theforeman.org/plugins/katello/
Katello is a systems life cycle management plugin to Foreman. Katello allows you to manage thousands of machines with one click. Katello can pull content from remote repositories into isolated environments, and make subscriptions management a breeze.
Currently, it is able to handle Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux based systems.
The most common way to set up Katello for development is to use forklift. This will set up a virtual machine with the Katello codebase checked out. Please use the forklift documentation found in the repository for how to get started with forklift.
If you have questions about or issues with deploying a development environment, feel free to ask for assistance in #theforeman-dev IRC channel on libera.chat or via the community forum
At this point, the development environment should be completely setup and the Katello engine functionality available. To verify this, go to your Foreman checkout:
Start the development server
cd $GITDIR/foreman
bundle exec foreman start
Access Foreman in your browser (e.g. https://<hostname>/). Note that while Rails will listen on port 3000, the dev installer will set up a reverse proxy so HTTPS on port 443 will work.
The first time you do this, you will need to accept the self-signed certificate on port 3808 by first visiting https://<hostname>:3808
Login to Foreman (default: admin and changeme)
If you go to https://<hostname>/about and view the "Plugins" tab, you should see a "Katello" plugin listed.
In order to reset the development environment, all backend data and the database needs to be reset. To reiterate, the following will destroy all data in Pulp, Candlepin and your Foreman/Katello database. From the Foreman checkout run:
rake katello:reset
That's rather unfortunate. But don't worry! We can help. Just file a bug in our project tracker.
See the developer documentation.
See the annotation docs for more information.
Most of our documentation (both for users and developers) can be found at theforeman.org.
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We found that katello demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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