Planet Subgroup Infrastructure SOP

Fedora’s planet infrastructure produces planet configs out of users' ~/.planet files in their homedirs on fedorapeople.org. You can also create subgroups of users into other planets. This document explains how to setup new subgroups.

Contact Information

Owner

Fedora Infrastructure Team

Contact

#fedora-admin

Servers

batcave01/ planet.fedoraproject.org

Purpose

provide easy setup of new planet groups on planet.fedoraproject.org

following:

The Setup

  1. On batcave01:

    cp -a configs/system/planet/grouptmpl configs/system/planet/newgroupname
  2. cd to the new directory

  3. Run:

    perl -pi -e "s/%%groupname/newgroupname/g" fpbuilder.conf base_config planet-group.cron templates/*

    Replacing newgroupname with the groupname you want

  4. git add the whole dir

  5. Edit manifests/services/planet.pp

  6. Copy and paste everything from begging to end of the design team group, to use as a template.

  7. Modify what you copied replacing design with the new group name

  8. Save it

  9. Check everything in

  10. Run ansible on planet and check if it works

Use

Tell the requester to then copy their current .planet file to .planet.newgroupname. For example with the design team:

cp ~/.planet ~/.planet.design

This will then show up on the new feed http://planet.fedoraproject.org/design/