Red Hat Ansible Tower Upgrade from 3.5 to 3.8 – when running setup.sh is not enough – or: I have made fire!

I a customer project I had to update an existing Red Hat Ansible Tower setup from version 3.5.1 to the newest available version 3.8. The upgrade scenario as described in 8. Upgrading an Existing Tower Installation — Ansible Tower Installation and Reference Guide v3.8.0 does not work here. For example: the delivered setup.sh is not able to restore data exported from Postgres 9.6 into a new Postgres 10 database. This upgrade scenario as described is a result of a long discussion with Red Hat support (Thanks to Swati – he did a great job!) and an intensive test period on local virtual machines until the live system was in the row. Remark: The servers in this blog post are listed…

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 – ISO als Repository einbinden

Es gibt verschiedene Möglichkeiten ein ISO einer RHEL Installation in das YUM-Repository einzubinden um die Nachinstallation von Packages zu vereinfachen ISO als CDROM mounten und einbinden ISO lokal kopieren und einbinden Link – benötigt RHEL Subscription https://access.redhat.com/solutions/9892 ISO als CDROM mounten und einbinden Verzeichnis erstellen und mounten [root@srvrhel7 ~]# mkdir /mnt/cdrom [root@srvrhel7 ~]# mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom mount: /dev/sr0 is write-protected, mounting read-only Repository File rhel7.local.repo im Verzeichnis  /etc/yum.repos.d erstellen [RHEL7LocalRepositoryISO] name=RHEL7 Local Repository ISO baseurl=file:///mnt/cdrom enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-redhat-release Repository aufräumen [root@srvrhel7 ~]# yum clean all  Test vom Repository [root@srvrhel7 yum.repos.d]# yum repolist Loaded plugins: langpacks, product-id, subscription-manager This system is not registered to Red Hat Subscription Management. You can use subscription-manager to register. RHEL7LocalRepositoryISO                                                                                     | 4.1 kB  00:00:00 (1/2): RHEL7LocalRepositoryISO/group_gz                                                                    …

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