Ben's notes

This page describes the installation of Pulp on CentOS 7 for repository management without consumers (no remote management).

• Read: https://media.readthedocs.org/pdf/pulp/latest/pulp.pdf

• Read manual: https://pulp.readthedocs.org/en/2.6-release/user-guide/installation.html
• Check storage requirements.
• Install Pulp repo:

  cd /etc/yum.repos.d
  wget http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/pulp/pulp/rhel-pulp.repo

• Install EPEL repo:

  yum install epel-release-7-5.noarch.rpm
  yum update

• Install MongoDB:

  yum install mongodb-server
  systemctl enable mongod
  systemctl start mongod

• Install Qpid:

  yum install qpid-cpp-server qpid-cpp-server-store
  systemctl enable qpidd
  systemctl start qpidd

• Install the Pulp server:

  yum groupinstall pulp-server-qpid

• Edit /etc/pulp/server.conf:

  server_name = 

• Edit /etc/qpid/qpidd.conf:

  auth=no

• Initialize the database:

  sudo -u apache pulp-manage-db

• Edit /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf:

  SSLProtocol all -SSLv2 -SSLv3

• Start and enable apache:

  systemctl enable httpd
  systemctl start httpd

• Edit /etc/default/pulp_workers:

  PULP_CONCURRENCY=4

• Start workers:

  systemctl enable pulp_workers
  systemctl start pulp_workers

• Edit /etc/default/pulp_celerybeat
• Start Celery:

  systemctl enable pulp_celerybeat
  systemctl start pulp_celerybeat

• Edit /etc/default/pulp_resource_manager
• Start resource manager:

  systemctl enable pulp_resource_manager
  systemctl start pulp_resource_manager

• Install admin:

  yum groupinstall pulp-admin

• Edit /etc/pulp/admin/admin.conf:

  host =
  verify_ssl = False

• Add port 80 and 443 to trusted zone:

  firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-service=htts
  firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-service=https
  firewall-cmd --reload
  firewall-cmd --zone=public --list-all

• See: TLS - CentOS 7.x
• Also copy CA certificate, server certificate and key to /etc/pki/…, then configure Apache to use these certificates (ssl.conf and in /etc/httpd/conf.d).

• Log in as non-root user (password admin):

  pulp-admin login -u admin

• Change the admin password:

  pulp-admin auth user update --login admin -p

• You can save credentials in ~/.pulp/admin.conf:

  [auth]
  username: admin
  password: <your-new-pass>

• Create repo's:

  pulp-admin rpm repo create --repo-id=CentOS-7-x86_64 --feed=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/os/x86_64/
  pulp-admin rpm repo create --repo-id=CentOS-7-x86_64-updates --feed=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/updates/x86_64/

• Sync repo's:

  pulp-admin rpm repo sync run --repo-id="CentOS-7-x86_64"
  pulp-admin rpm repo sync run --repo-id="CentOS-7-x86_64-updates"

• Schedule sync every day at 13.00 UTC (period 1 day = P1D):

  pulp-admin rpm repo sync schedules create -s 2015-01-01T13:00:00Z/P1D --repo-id=CentOS-7-x86_64
  pulp-admin rpm repo sync schedules create -s 2015-01-01T13:00:00Z/P1D --repo-id=CentOS-7-x86_64-updates

• Show details:

  pulp-admin rpm repo list --repo-id HP-SPP-CentOS-7-x86_64 --details

• Modify feed:

  pulp-admin rpm repo update --repo-id HP-SPP-CentOS-7-x86_64 --feed http://downloads.linux.hpe.com/SDR/repo/spp/RHEL/7/x86_64/current

• Configure yum repo:

  [pulp-base]
  name=CentOS-$releasever - Base
  baseurl=https://repo.mgmt.domain/pulp/repos/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/
  enabled=1
  gpgcheck=1
  gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-7

• Read the manual
• Make sure email (ie postfix) is working on the system. Send a test mail.
• Configure [email] in /etc/pulp/server.conf and reload pulp.
• Create listener:

  pulp-admin event listener email create --event-type="repo.sync.finish" --subject="pulp notifications" --addresses=first@mail.tld,another@mail.tld

• List listeners:

  pulp-admin event listener list

• pulp.server.db.migrations hasn't been updated to the latest available migration.

  su -s /bin/sh apache -c pulp-manage-db

• Show and delete orhpaned packages:

  $ pulp-admin orphan list
  +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
                                  Summary
  +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
  
  Distribution:            1
  Docker Blob:             0
  Docker Image:            0
  Docker Manifest:         0
  Docker Tag:              0
  Drpm:                    13
  Erratum:                 0
  Iso:                     0
  Node:                    0
  Package Category:        0
  Package Environment:     0
  Package Group:           0
  Package Langpacks:       0
  Puppet Module:           0
  Repository:              0
  Rpm:                     271
  Srpm:                    0
  Yum Repo Metadata File:  3
  Total:                   288
  
  
  $ pulp-admin orphan remove --all
  This command may be exited via ctrl+c without affecting the request.
  
  
  [/]
  Running...
  
  Task Succeeded