Is it possible to carry out kickstart directly from custom RHUI Channel?

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Environment

  • Red Hat Update Infrastructure 2.0

Issue

  • Access to RHUI channels is controlled via the entitlement RPM , is it possible to use the RHUI channel to carry out a kickstart directly?

Resolution

  • It is not possible as per the architecture RHUI channels is controlled via the entitlement RPM.
  • To receive updates from RHUI on client system, one need to install a rpm which provides SSL certificate and does require configuration changes, so it is not possible to have this configuration at pre-installation stage (kickstart) and RHUI also don't serve data using http. So kickstart is not possible in RHUI.

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