Converting Red Hat Satellite 5 Configuration Channels to Ansible Roles

This script converts Red Hat Satellite 5 configuration channels to ansible roles.

Usage

To use the script, follow these steps:

1. Install the requirements by running yum install spacewalk-utils and pip install -r requirements.txt.
2. Dump the desired configuration channel(s) from Satellite 5 to a JSON file using the command spacewalk-export --channel channel_name --output-file file.json.
3. Activate the virtual environment by running source venv/bin/activate.
4. Run the script using the command python sat5cfg2ansible.py <path_to_json_files>.
5. The script will output the generated ansible roles and playbooks to the <path_to_json_files>/transformed_files directory.

Requirements

The following requirements are necessary to use this script:

• spacewalk-utils: This package is required to export configuration data from Red Hat Satellite 5.
• libmagic C library: This library is required for the python-magic package, which is used to identify the file type of the dumped JSON data. See the python-magic documentation (https://pypi.org/project/python-magic/) for installation instructions.

Usage via Container

This script can also be run using a container image.

Building the Container Image

To build the container image, run the following command:

podman build -t sat5cfg .

Running the Container

To convert the JSON files using the container, run the following command:

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podman run -it -v <path_to_local_files>:/data:Z sat5cfg

This will mount the local files at <path_to_local_files> to the /data directory in the container, and then run the container using the sat5cfg image.

Notes

• Make sure to replace <path_to_local_files> with the actual path to the local JSON files that you want to convert.
• The :Z flag is required to allow the container to access the files with the correct SELinux labels.