Intermittent problem with the RHSM Subscription tasks

[scott-vick]

I have observed a very intermittent issue with the tasks that utilize the ansible.builtin.rhsm_subscription module in the leapp-upgrade and leapp-post-upgrade roles.

Even though the tasks are set to use the "force" flag when registering to the various leapp activation keys, the task will still fail and throw the error about the target already being registered and to use the force flag.

[tabowling]

I wonder if it would be possible to use the new rhel-system-roles.rhc for this, though not certain about the state of compatibility with RHEL 7.9. https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/9/html/automating_system_administration_by_using_rhel_system_roles/using-the-rhc-system-role-to-register-the-system_automating-system-administration-by-using-rhel-system-roles

It could allow a clean definition like the following, especially for the new Insights Tasks for upgrades in the works.

---
- hosts: all
  become: true
  remote_user: ansible

  vars:
    rhc_organization: "{{ devsub_orgid }}"
    rhc_auth:
      activation_keys:
        keys:
          - "{{ devsub_act_key }}"
    rhc_insights:
      state: present
      remediation: true
      tags:
        group: demo
        location: lab
        description:
          - "{{ ansible_distribution }}"
          - demo
  roles:
    - role: redhat.rhel_system_roles.rhc
#    - role: fedora.linux_system_roles.rhc

[djdanielsson]

is this still an issue?

[scott-vick]

I have not seen it of late. I think the issue we were seeing was more to do with the customers Satellite infrastructure.