Cobbler is used to reimage testnodes in the lab. The Cobbler host is cobbler.front.sepia.ceph.com and is managed by Ansible. It's a VM in RHEV.

Access the Web UI at https://cobbler.front.sepia.ceph.com/cobbler_web/

See testnodereimage

1. Create an entry for the new distro in ceph-cm-ansible's root cobbler.yml
   1. If the distro's ISO is not publicly accessible (e.g., RHEL/inktank-rescue),
      1. Add a dummy entry (Distro name and blank iso var) to roles/cobbler_profile/defaults/main.yml
      2. Add to ansible/inventory/group_vars/cobbler.yml in the secrets repo
   2. Else if the distro's ISO is public (e.g., CentOS/Ubuntu), just add the iso path, sha256, etc. to roles/cobbler_profile/defaults/main.yml
2. Run ansible-playbook cobbler.yml –tags=“$NEW_PROFILE_TAG” where $NEW_PROFILE_TAG is the tag created in Step 1
3. In cobbler web UI, go to Profiles
   1. Click Create New Sub-profile
   2. Name it $NEW_DISTRO_NAME-stock
   3. Set Parent Profile to $NEW_DISTRO_NAME
   4. Save