[manager-beta] welcome SUSE Manager 4.1 Beta

Thu Mar 26 03:40:18 MDT 2020

Thank a lot for the quick response!
I am very happy to hear the status about ubuntu.

yes, I want to preseed something. I have done something like this (store the preseed file as kickstarter), but the cobbler-part is not prepared to handle ubuntu/debian style. So I filled in SLES stuff as fake 🙁

I will try Yomi, but this is very new to me. And may be some more additonal environment is needed.

The apt-cacher-ng is needed because, when I am doing the installation from the scratch the already synced repos could not be used.
There are no kickstarter repos available. The repos could only be used when the server is already registered in the SUSE Manager.

So I do the initial install using the apt-cache-ng on top SUSE Manager and after this I register to SUSE Manager.

Yes, you are right, I saw the release note about 4.0.5 but I did not found the documentation about the provisioning_api. Is there a special section in the Manual?

thanks a lot.
Franz

From: Pau Garcia Quiles <pau.garcia at suse.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2020 2:52 AM
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Subject: RE: welcome SUSE Manager 4.1 Beta

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API documentation is here, provisioning is section 42 (pages 369+)
https://documentation.suse.com/en-us/suma/4.1/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__documentation.suse.com_en-2Dus_suma_4.1_&d=DwMGaQ&c=68HcvFK2AZ4RUGlmK9Z3SQ&r=3-6Bf9d3fdMaGE7aURUiXsYL3KViuzX98w3Fs_FaJXY&m=u4frqsRYFKRir3OBl_Z-frc0Ng5FhI4olG1Lfi_7JUw&s=vuUXJD-Y1N4W6mWy_e1f2ea90afSmen-CVmHGj3y1kQ&e=>
https://documentation.suse.com/external-tree/en-us/suma/4.1/pdf/susemanager_api_doc_color_en.pdf<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__documentation.suse.com_external-2Dtree_en-2Dus_suma_4.1_pdf_susemanager-5Fapi-5Fdoc-5Fcolor-5Fen.pdf&d=DwMGaQ&c=68HcvFK2AZ4RUGlmK9Z3SQ&r=3-6Bf9d3fdMaGE7aURUiXsYL3KViuzX98w3Fs_FaJXY&m=u4frqsRYFKRir3OBl_Z-frc0Ng5FhI4olG1Lfi_7JUw&s=4b3ieIUeoaEqNMDjjasYX0dh9EEKQESDTY2ugaOgwbU&e=>

As for the Ubuntu autoinstallation, I am not sure I have fully understood what you are doing. If you could please provide full details on what you are doing, we'll look into it.

Thank you

Pau Garcia Quiles
SUSE Manager Product Owner & Technical Project Manager
Phone: +34 91 9018066
SUSE Software Solutions Spain

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De: manager-beta <manager-beta-bounces at lists.suse.com<mailto:manager-beta-bounces at lists.suse.com>> en nombre de Pförtsch, Franz <Franz.Pfoertsch at brose.com<mailto:Franz.Pfoertsch at brose.com>>
Enviado: miércoles, 25 de marzo de 2020 17:04
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Asunto: Re: [manager-beta] welcome SUSE Manager 4.1 Beta

Thank a lot for the quick response!

I am very happy to hear the status about ubuntu.

yes, I want to preseed something. I have done something like this (store the preseed file as kickstarter), but the cobbler-part is not prepared to handle ubuntu/debian style. So I filled in SLES stuff as fake 🙁

I will try Yomi, but this is very new to me. And may be some more additonal environment is needed.

The apt-cacher-ng is needed because, when I am doing the installation from the scratch the already synced repos could not be used.

There are no kickstarter repos available. The repos could only be used when the server is already registered in the SUSE Manager.

So I do the initial install using the apt-cache-ng on top SUSE Manager and after this I register to SUSE Manager.

Yes, you are right, I saw the release note about 4.0.5 but I did not found the documentation about the provisioning_api. Is there a special section in the Manual?

thanks a lot.

Franz

From: Pförtsch, Franz
Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2020 4:38 PM
To: manager-beta at lists.suse.com<mailto:manager-beta at lists.suse.com>
Subject: welcome SUSE Manager 4.1 Beta

Hello here some questions from the BLOG:

Hey, thanks a lot for the information. This are great news.

but what is going on with the ubuntu flavour? I am waiting on support of ubuntu 20.04 LTS and the feature to autoinstall ubuntu from the scratch.

Today I am installing the apt-cacher-ng on top of the suse manager server and use netboot-mini.iso to install behind a proxy/firewall.

I am also waiting on automated upgrade from sles12 to sles15 using salt. Today it is only supported for traditional clients.

best regards and stay healthy

Franz

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pagarcia           pagarcia says:

March 25, 2020 at 12:49 pm

Hi Franz

> but what is going on with the ubuntu flavour? I am waiting on support of ubuntu 20.04 LTS

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS will be supported.

The only reason SUSE Manager does not support Ubuntu 20.04 LTS yet is Ubuntu 20.04 LTS has not been released yet (expected release date is 23.04.2020).

> and the feature to autoinstall ubuntu from the scratch.

If you mean preseed, this is something we have in mind but we are not there yet.

It may be the case we support Ubuntu autoinstallation first via Yomi (try it! it’s available -for SUSE operating systems- in the 4.1 beta we just released!).

> Today I am installing the apt-cacher-ng on top of the suse manager server and use netboot-mini.iso to install behind a proxy/firewall.

Why do you need apt-cacher-ng? SUSE Manager (reposync) can sync .deb repositories. Or maybe I am missing something?

> I am also waiting on automated upgrade from sles12 to sles15 using salt. Today it is only supported for traditional clients.

It is possible with Salt since SUSE Manager 4.0.5, release 2 weeks ago:

https://www.suse.com/releasenotes/x86_64/SUSE-MANAGER/4.0/#_salt_clients_provisioning_api<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.suse.com_releasenotes_x86-5F64_SUSE-2DMANAGER_4.0_-23-5Fsalt-5Fclients-5Fprovisioning-5Fapi&d=DwMGaQ&c=68HcvFK2AZ4RUGlmK9Z3SQ&r=3-6Bf9d3fdMaGE7aURUiXsYL3KViuzX98w3Fs_FaJXY&m=u4frqsRYFKRir3OBl_Z-frc0Ng5FhI4olG1Lfi_7JUw&s=He_SnZZ1_3jPQxPXnRee3seG7Z8k6_lJnssbDfqCvlE&e=>

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pagarcia           pagarcia says:

March 25, 2020 at 12:52 pm

Also, remember we have the manager-beta mailing list, that’s probably the best place to continue the discussion:

http://lists.suse.com/mailman/listinfo/manager-beta<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__lists.suse.com_mailman_listinfo_manager-2Dbeta&d=DwMGaQ&c=68HcvFK2AZ4RUGlmK9Z3SQ&r=3-6Bf9d3fdMaGE7aURUiXsYL3KViuzX98w3Fs_FaJXY&m=u4frqsRYFKRir3OBl_Z-frc0Ng5FhI4olG1Lfi_7JUw&s=inNQXNwkylYqas-UBi_U8ay56vf2VAcb4UibqTnGj0w&e=>
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