Dell Ansible Testing

Install Ansible Modules

  1. Install Dell Ansible modules from here
    1. git clone -b devel --single-branch https://github.com/dell/dellemc-openmanage-ansible-modules.git
    2. cd dellemc-openmanage-ansible-modules
    3. python install.py
  2. Create a CIFs/NFS share from which to share files. I used Samba with this tutorial
    1. Note: If you get weird errors in the logs when starting SMB, you probably have a type-o in your smb.conf.
    2. I saw different things in different tutorials, but to get firewalld running I used firewall-cmd --permanent --add-service=samba && firewall-cmd --reload

Deploy Operating System (Incomplete)

  1. Next you will need to create a "Kickstartable" ISO. I chose to use RHEL8.
    1. I used the free developer license of RHEL 8
    2. I used this post to create the ISO.
    3. I used this site to generate my Kickstart config.

    4. Update I was going to use RHEL 8. However it looks like there is a bug that is a hard stop for RHEL 8 Kickstart so I'm swapping to CentOS.