Pulp is a tool for managing repositories of software packages and to make it available to large number of consumers. It manages  locally  mirror  or as a part of a repository and also host own software packages in repositories and manage content from multiple sources in one place.  Pulp manages the repositories using its REST API and command line interface .

Installation: 

Pulp will operates with 3 main components;  server, agent and client.

• Server: it is the main application server which stores data and distributes the content.
• Agent: it mainly runs on consumers and it communicates with server for remote content management.
• Client: it is a command line component which is divide into : admin-client – one which manages the server and consumer-client  – the one which manages the consumer’s relationship with the server.

1. PRE-REQUISITES FOR PULP INSTALLATION:

• Install the pulp repo using the command

# wget  https://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/pulp/pulp/rhel6-pulp.repo# wget http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/pulp/pulp/rhel-pulp.repo

• Install the  EPEL repo using command

#  yum install http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm

• Install MongoDB : For pulp server installation we need MongoDB installed. After installing it must be configured to start on boot and start it.

#  yum install mongodb-server#  systemctl enable mongod#  systemctl start mongod

• Install Qpid : pulp uses a message bus Qpid . pulp will work with Qpid or RabbitMQ, but by default Qpid is used by the pulp. Qpid on yum based systems can be installed using command :

#  yum install qpid-cpp-server qpid-cpp-server-linearstore# systemctl enable qpidd# systemctl start qpidd.

2. Install and configure pulp server :

• Install the pulp server, task workers and their dependencies using the command 

# yum install pulp-server python-gofer-qpid python-qpid qpid-tools

• Also install the support of different content through plugins using the command :

# yum install pulp-rpm-plugins pulp-puppet-plugins pulp-docker-plugins

• Edit the configuration file /etc/pulp/server.conf if needed.
• Generate RSA key pair and CA certificate as 

• Initialize the pulp database first ensure that the broker is running before initilaising pulp’s database as 

• Then initialize the pulp’s database as 

• Then restart the httpd service as

# systemctl restart httpd

• Then we need to configure the web server to refuse SSLv3.0 ,by editing the /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf as 

• Then start httpd and set it to start it on boot as 

• Pulp has a distributed task system which uses celery stsrt it by configuring , enabling and starting the pulp server. Configuring workers can be done by editing /etc/default/pulp_workers. It can be enabled and started using the command . 

• There are 2 more services need to be running : celerybeat process and pulp_resource _manager. These has to be enabled and started using the command as         

Celerybeat is edited as 

          Then it is enabled and started as 

          Pulp_resource_manager is enabled and started as 

3. Install pulp admin client:

Pulp admin clieny is used for administrative commands on pulp server such as manipulation of repositories and content . it can be accessed through pulp_admin script.

• Install the admin client and plugin packages as

# yum install pulp-admin-client pulp-rpm-admin-extensions \pulp-puppet-admin-extensions pulp-docker-admin-extensions

• Then edit the admin configuration file /etc/pulp/admin/admin.conf as 

4. Install consumer client and agent : 

Consumer client is present on all the systems which acts as a pulp server ,it provides themeans for a sysytem to register and configure itself eith pulp server. Pulp consumer commands are accessed through pulp-consumer script.

• Install pulp consumer client , agent packages and Qpid specific consumer dependencies using the command 

# yum install pulp-consumer-client pulp-rpm-consumer-extensions \pulp-puppet-consumer-extensions pulp-agent pulp-rpm-handlers pulp-rpm-yumplugins \pulp-puppet-handlers python-gofer-qpid

• Then, update the consumer client configuration in /etc/pulp/consumer/consumer.conf file as 

• Then set the agent to start it on boot as