lightning talk, CentOS Dojo, DevConf.us
summary
Provisioning of ~4,000 RPMs drops from roughly five to six hours to about one hour by switching package installs to DNF via yum-for-dnf repo (or Ansible’s dnf module) and disabling per-RPM disk sync with LD_PRELOAD no-sync. Systems boot from Satellite/Foreman kickstarts with a minimal base, then Ansible applies the rest; the package phase shrinks to about 30 minutes, followed by configuration tasks, and a reboot safely flushes disks so the risky no-sync step does not corrupt images.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction to workstations
- 1:25Provisioning with Satellite
- 3:14Ansible yum module issues
- 6:05Switching to DNF module
- 7:16Using nosync for faster provisioning
- 9:37Results of optimizations
- 10:46Migration to Satellite
- 12:59Future improvements and Q&A
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