Using Pulp as repository management

I haven't used Artifactory before and I didn't want to spend a lot of time learning it now to do the assignment as it wouldn't show any coding abilities. The repoback.rb script will download all the packages from the repo in the URL specified in the repoURL variable to a local directory, then it will:

• Create a local yum repo
• Use Pulp to create a repository in the Pulp Server feeding it from the local repo created on the earlier step
• Sync the local repo with the newly created repo
• Replace the yum repo file with the new baseurl that points to the date the script runs (yyyy-mm-dd format)

Information regarding Pulp and its installation can be found here

repoback.py

Still uses wget to fetch the files, but using the --no-clobber that skips existing files.

Note I have 2 blog posts from the time when I worked at Chef Software that has details on repository administration and some monitoring: Creating a local Chef repository with Pulp Self-monitoring Chef using Sensu

I also have a blog that's severely outdated but has a post about Cassandra Cluster on AWS. My GitHub has several small personal projects that I worked on. One project in particular can show some of my shell coding skills. It's called AdSkip, a small script I wrote to strip commercials from TV shows that I recorded.