obal - packaging wrapper using Ansible

obal is an Ansible wrapper with a set of Ansible playbooks to ease maintanance of packaging repositories like foreman-packaging and pulp-packaging.

All obal actions should also work with plain Ansible when called like ansible-playbook <action_playbook>.yml -l <package> instead of obal <action> <package>.

necessary tools

• python (2 or 3)
• ansible

Using Obal via Container

Obal and all it's required packages are available in a container that can be used locally or in build environments. The users Koji credentials and configuration must be mounted into the container alongside of mounting the packaging project into /opt/packaging to work. Note the examples below assume SELinux is disabled.

To run (or sub docker for podman):

podman run -v `pwd`:/opt/packaging -v ~/.koji:/root/.koji obal:latest scratch katello