My mind does still boggle a bit that you have to pass the username and
password at the command line to subscription-manager.

On Wed, Aug 7, 2019 at 2:39 PM Trevor Vaughan <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Well, I may have my answer thanks to GitLab:
> https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/13784
>
> Going to start experimenting and see how it goes. Will probably have to
> find some method to deadlock since I doubt Dev subscriptions allow dozens
> of subscriptions to fire off at once.
>
> On Tue, Aug 6, 2019 at 11:37 AM Sean <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> To sort of backup Trevor, I wasn't aware of the download link that Shawn
>> had in his email.  I work in the Govt/Mil space and we apply DISA STIG for
>> RHEL to CentOS and Scientific Linux.  Doing so satisfies the ISSM's.  My
>> govt. customer doesn't want to buy RHEL, he's not supporting a 24/7
>> operation that has any real uptime demands, but he has govt customers who
>> run RHEL.  That said, having access to a RHEL ISO image that I can install,
>> but then not update or add any packages to w/o a subscription is pretty
>> useless, even for testing purposes.  We self-host Gitlab Enterprise and I
>> attempt (poorly) to provide reference artifacts of compliance reports that
>> are required for us produce in for operations out of my CI pipelines also.
>> The stuff I produce is used by other IT groups beyond my own, so having the
>> ability to provide these compliance reporting artifacts for RHEL would be
>> very useful.
>>
>> Further, since reading Shawn's email, I downloaded the RHEL 8 ISO,
>> installed in a VirtualBox VM to tinker with.  I can't even easily install
>> vbox tools to keep the VM from trapping my mouse.  I also can't easily add
>> packages or check for an update with out a subscription hassle.  Sure,
>> maybe I can spend an a couple hours figuring out how to get the tools
>> installed with out a subscription...but again it's a hassle and why go
>> through that when CentOS is an easy button?  Heck, with CentOS, its likely
>> that I don't even need to craft my own system, I can just go grab one
>> someone else built with Vagrant or Docker.
>>
>> I guess since I'm ranting a bit... Container testing provides limited use
>> with things like STIG compliance, since you need "real" systems with kernel
>> params, systemd, disk partitions, and such to get a full picture.  There
>> are so many functional gaps between being STIG compliant and having a
>> system that actually works for whatever it's purpose might be.  Having a
>> means to test things seems pretty important for all of us in this arena.
>>
>> Just two examples...
>> 1) RH Satellite / Foreman on a system with RHEL-07-021024 applied doesn't
>> work - https://access.redhat.com/solutions/3993801.  It can be made to
>> work by adding "-Djava.io.tmpdir=/some/other/temporary/directory" to the
>> JAVA_ARGS variable in /etc/sysconfig/puppetserver.
>> 2) Having selinux contain users to staff_u (per RHEL-07-020020) and
>> attempting to burn a DVD from Gnome with Brasero fails miserably.  In order
>> to even discover the whole reason why, you have unmask the selinux hidden
>> denials.  Can I automate a test that validates this functionality?...
>> probably not, but why even bother trying on RHEL with the hassle with
>> subscriptions?
>>
>> --Sean
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 5, 2019 at 6:29 PM Trevor Vaughan <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Someone throw me an example of using it in Travis CI, under Docker, with
>>> access to repo updates and another example of using it via Vagrant in
>>> GitLab.com and I'm totally in.
>>>
>>> I gave up trying to figure out a way to do it without putting my
>>> developer key in places where it doesn't look like I can put my developer
>>> key. Now, If I'm allowed to put my developer key in a Git repo and let it
>>> fly to the four winds without getting in trouble, that's really easy!
>>> Otherwise, someone needs to hop on one of the 80 places that RedHat has
>>> technical blogs and clue me in.
>>>
>>> Alternatively, giving FOSS projects free runners in a Red Hat cloud that
>>> has access to repo updates would work.
>>>
>>> Heck, AppVeyor even lets me test on Windows easily (as does Vagrant in
>>> many cases) but trying to test on RHEL in a public CI system is more work
>>> than it's worth.
>>>
>>> In terms of the flow down, I'm not using this for validation on any sort
>>> of real system and am making no claims that it means anything. What I'm
>>> doing is using what the rest of the FOSS world uses to develop and doing
>>> something that lets me know if there are going to be absolutely
>>> catastrophic effects when I test on RHEL without needing to figure out how
>>> to get developer keys working in GitLab and/or Travis.
>>>
>>> Trevor
>>>
>>> On Mon, Aug 5, 2019 at 1:34 PM Shawn Wells <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 8/5/19 10:12 AM, Trevor Vaughan wrote:
>>>> > Personally, I would like it if I could just flip a switch and tell it
>>>> > to build *all* profiles for the 'RedHat family'.
>>>> >
>>>> > Primarily, I use this for testing and just kicking around new ideas
>>>> > via Vagrant since getting ahold of "real" RedHat is still not viable
>>>> > in public Travis CI via Vagrant.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> With RHEL being free for development [0], the release of RHEL Universal
>>>> Base Image [1] how is that still the case?
>>>>
>>>> There's really zero excuse for continued use of CentOS, especially for
>>>> Government systems.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> > I can do everything else, but not that.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> [0]
>>>>
>>>> https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2016/03/31/no-cost-rhel-developer-subscription-now-available/
>>>>
>>>> [1]
>>>> https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/introducing-red-hat-universal-base-image
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