Feature #38364: Point to main RHSM URL when rhsm_url is empty on Pulp Smart Proxies - Katello - Foreman

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Point to main RHSM URL when rhsm_url is empty on Pulp Smart Proxies

Added by Ewoud Kohl van Wijngaarden about 2 months ago. Updated about 1 month ago.

Status:

Ready For Testing

Priority:

Normal

Assignee:

Ewoud Kohl van Wijngaarden

Category:

Foreman Proxy Content

Target version:

Katello 4.17.0

Difficulty:

Triaged:

Yes

Bugzilla link:

Pull request:

https://github.com/Katello/katello/pull/11328

Fixed in Releases:

Found in Releases:

Red Hat JIRA:

Description

Currently when the RHSM URL is empty on a Pulp Smart Proxy it's assumed to be available on https://$URL:8443/rhsm but that was mostly for prior compatibility. By now we no longer deploy on port 8443 by default.

The proposal is to interpret a missing RHSM URL as the Smart Proxy not having that available. In that case Katello should assume the RHSM URL on the Foreman instance is to be used by clients.

This is mostly useful for the primary Pulp instance where you don't want to point to some proxy and Foreman itself already knows better where a client should connect. This reduces the coupling of services.

It also allows deployment of content proxies without RHSM, though there may not be a direct use case for that.

Migration wise I don't expect problems because the installer has set this attribute on all existing proxies since Foreman 3.1 so n-2 shouldn't be any issue.