Create a local Rocky Linux repository via Ascender

want you to be able to see what's going on so I'm going to jump back to the template itself and I'm just going to click the little rocket Chet here and I'm going to launch it so do I want to sync the repo now I've got it defaulting to false I'll change that to true I'll click next and launch and then my automation is off and running so while that happens rather while that runs I'm going to pop over to the Playbook itself and I want to show you a couple of the knobs you may or may not want to turn so here's a Playbook

it doesn't look anything too crazy but I do have some variables in the variable section here that are useful so I have web path and so this is going to be the path to your web repository so um it's basically the root folder where all the files are going to get synchronized too right right in there a script path so this is using a bash script to actually do the uh rsync and ultimately that's what it's doing it's just R syncing these files and making sure it it uh grabs the uh newest version or synchronizes uh everything that happens to be in there uh and

so you want to update those paths to match whatever your environment looks like so the sync hour frequency I have this set up to where it we'll just do it based on hours so you just put the number of hours in there you want it to wait in between synchronizing uh configure web server now the uh the guide we have online assumes you already have a web server configured I didn't want to assume that so if you are say setting up a server from scratch and there is no web server on here if you set this to true it will go and it will install

an engine X server configure all the settings for you as is appropriate so that it will you know kind of have it browsable and uh ready for you to utilize now if you underneath that have S uh SE Linux config true uh that will set up the uh the web folder it'll kind of uh re uh reset the uh permission structure in there because it's also going to make sure all these folders exist so the assumption is they probably don't so it we'll create that folder and then it will just make sure that uh SC Linux is configured properly now it's only going to do

that if you are installing the web server so if you want it to be a different Behavior than that you might need to modify this and then also you can see the sync now uh option is there by default I have it set to false um just so it won't synchronize on the regular interval um but in my case I wanted it to actually be true so all these things you may want to adjust uh these settings you may want to adjust the defaults now let me scroll down a little bit when we're doing our synchronizing we are doing rsync but we're using an exclusion

file so what that allows you to do is specify certain files or folders that you don't actually want to synchronize and so in our environment this is uh the exclusion file kindly provided by my uh associate my compadre uh my uh Ninja friend Jimmy Connor uh so here you could see there's just a a big list of things that we don't necessarily want to pull down some aren't going to be used in our environment um some may be in yours right so you might want to modify this list um but for us you know it's kind of helpful it also means there's fewer space requirements

on your server right so if you're not just pulling everything down you're going to consume less space which is more efficient both on your bandwidth as well as on your storage now keep in mind once everything is rsync it's not just going to pull everything down over and over and over that's kind of not the nature of rsync it's going to compare the two and really just pull uh things that have changed so it is fairly space efficient a lot of this is utilizing templates as well so if you take a look at the template folder here you can see kind of all of my

templates I'm using right it excludes the engine X and the repository synchronization script so feel free to pop in there now let me pop pop back over to our job it was successful it completed so uh now that everything has run it is saying that it is syncing correctly let me jump to the very bottom y so it is synchronizing now so let me tab over to my uh terminal and we'll watch that grow just to make sure that it's actually working all right so here we are this is the uh terminal on the server I'm just doing a watch on dfh and right there

on the RL D root you should see the space being used increment slowly I've got it refreshing I think every two seconds yeah it says on the top right as you can see it's actually uh pulling all that stuff in so it successfully worked you can see it went really fast there's not a lot to talk about here the steps are pretty laid out everything's going to be documented in the blog post so um if you have any questions or comments or you'd make any modifications I would love to hear from you feedback is a gift and it is almost the holiday season so uh

feel free to give me any of those um if you would like any assistance doing any of this inside of your environment please feel free to reach out we do support on all of our products and so we would be happy to hear from you if nothing else happy automating happy uh local repoing and we'll see you next time bye