Katello/Pulp3 Integration meeting

ggainey · April 29, 2026, 5:35pm

2026-04-15

Overview

Katello Schedule

Pulp

Pulpcore
- All pulpcore changes from last two weeks
- All merged PRs in the Pulp organization in the last two weeks
- Q: With the effort to “containerize” katello - are Katello/TheForeman going to continue building RPMs?
  - Ian: Yes, the containers will be based off of our RPMs.
- pulp_rust now exists. Do you foresee any potential interest?
- New setting to avoid immediate task timeouts:
  - https://github.com/pulp/pulpcore/pull/7587
  - Backported to 3.85 and 3.105
- Set default --max-requests 10000 and --max-requests-jitter 500 for API workers to prevent unbounded RSS growth from glibc heap fragmentation over long-lived worker processes. #7482
RPM
- New release coming in the next week
Ansible
Pulp Container
OSTree
Pulp CLI
Pulp Replica
Pulp_python
- We’re attempting to remove publications from Python repos in SAT-43537
- Pulp-python fix needed for publication-less repos SAT-44473
  - This is a single line fix; I can put in a PR later today.
- There are several other related issues for various Katello-side fixes.

Katello

QE

pulp-ansible regression Jira
- versioning issue? (redhat-satellite-3.13.0+1.tar.gz)

ggainey · April 29, 2026, 5:36pm

2026-04-29

Overview

Katello Schedule

Pulp

Pulpcore
- All pulpcore changes from last two weeks
- All merged PRs in the Pulp organization in the last two weeks
RPM
- Request from product to support signature verification on sync - will require some Katello integration, medium/long-term goal (2027)
- Package model now include signing key fingerprints
- Pulp_rpm 3.36.0 released
- Client Challenge
- Making sure you're not a bot!
- Will add vulnerability report to RPM: Jira
Ansible
Pulp Container
OSTree
Pulp CLI
Pulp Replica
Pulp_python
- 3.19 hasn’t had any backports since September
- potential backportable things:
  - Fix pull-through failing to check repository when package was not in remote (#1006)
  - Fix pull-through caching failing for improper named packages (#1084)
- Backports will be released soon in 3.19.3
Bindings?
- Is katello generating their own? Or writing a replacement?
  - Katello Hackathon involved starting from OpenAPI spec and writing their own “pulp_glue”
- Interested in a Rust version of pulp-glue?
  - Iballou really loves the idea of not-maintaining quirks/vers-issues of pulp-glue
  - Would like details of “how would we call this from Ruby”?

Katello

3.105 upgrade for 4.21 has gone swimmingly. The upstream upgrade is essentially complete.
- One remaining upstream PR, then downstream Stuff
Work remains ongoing for removal of publications from Python-type content.
Load-balanced Pulps discussion

QE

Kudos to Gerrod and Daniel for the pulp-container fix for 6.18.5

ggainey · May 13, 2026, 4:34pm

2026-05-13

Overview

Katello Schedule

Pulp

Pulpcore
- All pulpcore changes from last two weeks
- All merged PRs in the Pulp organization in the last two weeks
- core/3.115 is coming, “soon” (core/3.111 being released today)
- https://github.com/pulp/pulpcore/issues/7559
  - Allows better control of the amount of temp-storage used by syncs
  - Needs to be consumed by pulp_rpm/pulp_container once released buy core
RPM
- Pulp will extract signing_keys on package upload (not sync) and list them on the package
  - https://github.com/pulp/pulp_rpm/issues/4458
  - Both a feature and a bugfix in a non-Katello context
  - Currently only on-upload, but we want to be able to grab this during sync as well
- Vulnerability report approach for RPM:
  - Define ecosystem by repository (via repository labels)
  - Add extra endpoint to get ecosystem composition for a repository (e.g, can report if a repository has 100% alma linux, rocky, etc)

Katello

https://github.com/pulp/pulpcore/issues/7705
- Pedro taking a look, sounds related to the openapi-generator
- Katello not blocked

QE

Containerized-testing in progress, going well so far

ggainey · July 23, 2026, 12:35pm

2026-07-22

Overview

Katello Schedule

Pulp

Pulpcore
- All pulpcore changes from last two weeks
- All merged PRs in the Pulp organization in the last two weeks
- core/3.115 released - we’re working on getting plugin compat-releases out now
- FilesystemExporter CVE fixed : https://github.com/pulp/pulpcore/pull/7879 (CVE-2026-12701)
- CI moving to Centos Stream 10
RPM
- Changing the repository uniqueness constraint from NEVRA to NVRA
  - https://github.com/pulp/pulp_rpm/pull/4504
  - When trying to put packages into repositories (sync, upload, modify, …), conflict cases are always resolved with highest epoch winning
  - To put a lower one, remove the newer one first
Ansible
Pulp Container
OSTree
Pulp CLI
Pulp Replica
Pulp_python
Product-EOL dates - can we drop support for branches it needed?
- Discussion ensues

Katello

PQC certs/header-size-limits issue
- If katello needs help, they will come and ask us
- Jira: Jira

ggainey · August 6, 2026, 6:58pm

2026-08-05

Overview

Katello Schedule

Pulp

Pulpcore
RPM
Ansible
Pulp Container
OSTree
Pulp CLI
Pulp Replica
Pulp_python
PQC Work is In Progress
- Ansible, container work
- For what Satellite needs, it’s there but needs test coverage
- If one uses signing-services, new functionality needs to be added
- Work w/ iballou for Interesting Test Scenario system
  - Only issue was the cert-too-long problem w/ debug-cert
  - Candlepin 4.8 testing: Enabling PQC certificates on RHEL 9 containerized Satellite - Ian Ballou - Next-Gen Confluence
  - [SAT-47554] Run test automation on the PQC enabled satellite and identify issues (Artemis components) - Red Hat Issue Tracker
    - [SAT-47830] Configure Pulp to accept larger headers for PQC debug cert - Red Hat Issue Tracker
/v4/ Stuff

Katello

Couple of similar issues: Jira and Jira
- In-progress current sprint
- Jira
- Jira
[SAT-43527] RHEL 9.6 EUS AppStream repository sync and Publishing Content View with RHEL 9 / 9.7 BaseOS & AppStream Fails Due to Duplicate error - Red Hat Issue Tracker
- We (well, Partha) is talking to the CDN team about helping to avoid the duplicate content issue that broke a number of Satellites
Katello is getting ready to upgrade Pulp, are there deprecations or updates that we should prepare for?
- core/115 drops Django4 support
- https://github.com/pulp/pulpcore/issues/7466
- Sat-Next is good with Django5 and Pgres16

QE

working with Pedro on Jira (import of 65535 rpms)

ggainey · September 2, 2026, 3:58pm

2026-09-02

Overview

Katello Schedule

Pulp

Pulpcore
- All pulpcore changes from last two weeks
- All merged PRs in the Pulp organization in the last two weeks
- core/3.117 to be released today
- PQC verified, tests upstream
RPM
- Libcomps dependency has been removed, effective next release (3.39)
  - A new dependency, rpmrepo_metadata is displacing it
- PQC verified, tests upstream
Ansible
- PQC support ongoing
Pulp Container
- PQC verified, tests upstream
OSTree
- Pulp wants to archive and remove from oci-images - thoughts??
- Pulp_ostree - does anyone use it?
- AI: iballou will report to the discourse-thread on katello response to this proposal
- AI: ggainey to check back in next week and then archive
Pulp CLI
Pulp Replica
Pulp_python

Katello

Hoping to have a quick discussion surrounding edge cases of new container push workflow
- Preliminary testing went great - it looks like we’ll only have a few arch changes on the Katello side.
- For in-place migrations, totally possible but PRN will change. Will not need to run content itself through Katello.
- Container will continue to support old-style and new-style in parallel until “some future release”, where old-style repos will be forced to new-style as a migration
  - Current behavior is “new style is default”, and one can request old-style repos be migrated, as a task, in a running system with the new pulp-container release
Performance team investigating using replication for smartproxies!

QE

RE container-push-repos - Vlad to work with/talk to Quinn

quba42 · September 3, 2026, 9:07am

Right now pulp_deb does not have replication support. Please keep me in the loop as this plan becomes more concrete, so we have enough of a window to plan this work as needed.

ggainey · September 3, 2026, 12:00pm

Good point, Quirin - I added an agenda item to discuss, to the Pulp/Katello/Community agenda for next month.