What will happen to Puppet content on Red Hat Satellite server after upgrade to Satellite 6.10?

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Environment

  • Red Hat Satellite 6.10
  • Puppet Content Removal

Issue

  • What will happen to Puppet content on Satellite server after upgrade to Satellite 6.10?
  • How can one take backup of Puppet modules before upgrading to Satellite 6.10?

Resolution

  • Publishing a Content View in Satellite 6.9 and earlier creates a Puppet Environment in Satellite. Hosts registered with Satellite only know about Puppet Environments.

  • Only the Puppet repositories will be deleted from Satellite after upgrade to Satellite 6.10 if any of the following conditions are met:

    • Any Puppet repositories are present in Library life cycle environment on Satellite.
    • Puppet repositories present in unpublished content view/s on Satellite.

  • Any Puppet content that is in use by registered hosts will not be deleted like Puppet Environment and on disk Puppet content (/etc/puppetlabs/code/environments) . Registered hosts will continue to use the Puppet modules after the Satellite 6.10 upgrade, but future Puppet content management must be handled outside of the Satellite.

  • Backup instructions: If you would like to take the backup of uploaded/synced puppet modules before Satellite 6.10 upgrade then you can take backup of /var/lib/pulp/content/units/puppet_module/ directory on Satellite and keep it safe on a remote server. 

      # tar -czvf /backup/directory/puppet_modules.tar.gz /var/lib/pulp/content/units/puppet_module

Keep the /backup/directory/puppet_modules.tar.gz file safely on the remote server.

For more KB articles/solutions related to Red Hat Satellite 6.x Puppet Issues, please refer to the Red Hat Satellite Consolidated Troubleshooting Article for Red Hat Satellite 6.x Puppet Issues

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