cobblerclient

Cobbler Client written in Go.

Original authors:

Container Solutions (2015)
Joe Topjian (2017)

Adapted by hbokh (for Devhouse Spindle, 2020) to support Cobbler 3.x.

Cobbler 3 support

Cobbler (up to version 2.8.x) was written in Python2. However, Python2 is EOL since January 2020.
Cobbler 3 has been adapted to use Python3 and so lots of code changed. Sadly this also broke backward compatability with the original cobblerclient. Hence this fork.

XMLRPC API changes

Function read_or_write_kickstart_template was replaced with:

read_autoinstall_template
write_autoinstall_template
remove_autoinstall_template

Function read_or_write_snippet was replaced with:

read_autoinstall_snippet
write_autoinstall_snippet
remove_autoinstall_snippet

Other changes

Template names used are now short names without a path.
So foo.ks instead of /var/lib/cobbler/kickstarts/foo.ks.

Renamed

These attributes are renamed in Cobbler 3:

kickstart to autoinstall
ks_meta to autoinstall_meta, but it is still used as a "legacy field"

These directories have been renamed:

/var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror to /var/www/cobbler/distro_mirror
/var/lib/cobbler/kickstarts to /var/lib/cobbler/templates

The storage locations for the json files changed from /var/lib/cobbler/config/{distros,profiles,systems,etc...}.d to /var/lib/cobbler/collections/{distros,profiles,systems,etc...}.

There is being worked on a script to migrate these: scripts/migrate-data-v2-to-v3.py.

Added

These fields have been added:

boot_loader - must be either grub or pxelinux

Removed

Support for these attributes was dropped in Cobbler 3:

ldap_enabled
ldap_type
monit_enabled
redhat_management_server

Todo

Make terraform apply & terrafrom destroy at least work for the Spindle setup ("add systems").
Fix outdated go tests (go test -v ., also broken in origin repo).
Dive deeper into changed types for some fields (see COBBLER_FIELDS).

holmesb / cobblerclient