Settings

There are only two required settings, although specific plugins may have additional required settings.

Note

For more information on how to specify settings see the Applying Settings docs.

Pulp uses three types of settings:

Django Settings

Below is a list of the most common Django settings Pulp users typically use. Pulp is a Django project, so any Django setting can be set.

SECRET_KEY

In order to get a pulp server up and running a Django SECRET_KEY must be provided.

The following code snippet can be used to generate a random SECRET_KEY.

1import random
2
3chars = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789!@#$%^&*(-_=+)'
4print(''.join(random.choice(chars) for i in range(50)))

DB_ENCRYPTION_KEY

The file location of a symmetric fernet key that Pulp uses to encrypt sensitive fields in the database. Default location is /etc/pulp/certs/database_fields.symmetric.key.

The key is automatically generated by default with the pulp-oci-images. The key can be generated independently but it must be a url-safe base64-encoded string of 32 random bytes.

To generate a key with openssl:

openssl rand -base64 32 > /etc/pulp/certs/database_fields.symmetric.key

This file can contain multiple such keys (one per line). The key in the first line will be used for encryption but all others will still be attempted to decrypt old tokens. This can help you to rotate this key in the following way:

  1. Shut down all Pulp services (api, content and worker processes).

  2. Add a new key at the top of the key file.

  3. Call pulpcore-manager rotate-db-key.

  4. Remove the old key (on the second line) from the key file.

  5. Start the Pulp services again.

For a zero downtime key rotation you can follow the slightly more complex recipe: 1. Add a new key at the bottom of the key file. 2. Restart the Pulp services in the usual phased manner. 3. Swap the keys in the key file. 4. Restart the Pulp services again. 5. Call pulpcore-manager rotate-db-key. 6. Remove the old key (on the second line) from the key file. 7. Restart the Pulp services for the last time.

DATABASES

By default Pulp uses PostgreSQL on localhost. PostgreSQL is the only supported database. For instructions on how to configure the database, refer to database installation.

DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE

By default, Pulp uses the local filesystem to store files. The default option which uses the local filesystem is pulpcore.app.models.storage.FileSystem.

For more information about different Pulp storage options, see the storage documentation.

REDIRECT_TO_OBJECT_STORAGE

When set to True access to artifacts is redirected to the corresponding Cloud storage configured in DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE using pre-authenticated URLs. When set to False artifacts are always served by the content app instead.

Defaults to True; ignored for local file storage.

MEDIA_ROOT

The location where Pulp will store files. By default this is /var/lib/pulp/media.

This only affects storage location when DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE is set to pulpcore.app.models.storage.FileSystem. See the storage documentation for more info.

It should have permissions of:

  • mode: 750

  • owner: pulp (the account that pulp runs under)

  • group: pulp (the group of the account that pulp runs under)

  • SELinux context: system_u:object_r:pulpcore_var_lib_t:s0

LOGGING

By default Pulp logs at an INFO level to syslog. For all possible configurations please refer to Django documenation on logging

Enabling DEBUG logging is a common troubleshooting step. See the Enabling Debug Logging documentation for details on how to do that.

AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS

By default, Pulp has two types of authentication enabled, and they fall back for each other:

  1. Basic Auth which is checked against an internal users database

  2. Webserver authentication that relies on the webserver to perform the authentication.

To change the authentication types Pulp will use, modify the AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS settings. See the Django authentication documentation for more information.

Redis Settings

Warning

To enable usage of Redis the CACHE_ENABLED option must be set to True.

The following Redis settings can be set in your Pulp config:

  • REDIS_URL

  • REDIS_HOST

  • REDIS_PORT

  • REDIS_DB

  • REDIS_PASSWORD

Below are some common settings used for Redis configuration.

REDIS_HOST

The hostname for Redis.

REDIS_PORT

The port for Redis.

REDIS_PASSWORD

The password for Redis.

Pulp Settings

Pulp defines the following settings itself:

API_ROOT

A string containing the path prefix for the Pulp API. This is used by the REST API when forming URLs to refer clients to other parts of the REST API and by the pulpcore-api application to match incoming URLs. Pulp appends the string api/v3/ to this setting.

Defaults to /pulp/. After the application appends api/v3/ it makes the V3 API by default serve from /pulp/api/v3/.

WORKING_DIRECTORY

The directory used by workers to stage files temporarily. This defaults to /var/lib/pulp/tmp/.

It should have permissions of:

  • mode: 750

  • owner: pulp (the account that pulp runs under)

  • group: pulp (the group of the account that pulp runs under)

  • SELinux context: system_u:object_r:pulpcore_var_lib_t:s0

Note

It is recommended that WORKING_DIRECTORY and MEDIA_ROOT exist on the same storage volume for performance reasons. Files are commonly staged in the WORKING_DIRECTORY and validated before being moved to their permanent home in MEDIA_ROOT.

CHUNKED_UPLOAD_DIR

A relative path inside the DEPLOY_ROOT directory used exclusively for uploaded chunks. The uploaded chunks are stored in the default storage specified by DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE. This option allows users to customize the actual place where chunked uploads should be stored within the declared storage. The default, upload, is sufficient for most use cases. A change to this setting only applies to uploads created after the change.

CONTENT_ORIGIN

A required string containing the protocol, fqdn, and port where the content app is reachable by users. This is used by pulpcore and various plugins when referring users to the content app. For example if the API should refer users to content at using http to pulp.example.com on port 24816, (the content default port), you would set: https://pulp.example.com:24816.

HIDE_GUARDED_DISTRIBUTIONS

If activated, the distributions that are protected by a content guard will not be shown on the directory listing in the content app. Defaults to False.

CONTENT_PATH_PREFIX

A string containing the path prefix for the content app. This is used by the REST API when forming URLs to refer clients to the content serving app, and by the content serving application to match incoming URLs.

Defaults to /pulp/content/.

CONTENT_APP_TTL

The number of seconds before a content app should be considered lost.

Defaults to 30 seconds.

CACHE_ENABLED

Store cached responses from the content app into Redis. This setting improves the performance of the content app under heavy load for similar requests. Defaults to False.

Note

The entire response is not stored in the cache. Only the location of the file needed to recreate the response is stored. This reduces database queries and allows for many responses to be stored inside the cache.

CACHE_SETTINGS

Dictionary with tunable settings for the cache:

  • EXPIRES_TTL - Number of seconds entries should stay in the cache before expiring.

Defaults to 600 seconds.

Note

Set to None to have entries not expire. Content app responses are always invalidated when the backing distribution is updated.

DOMAIN_ENABLED

Note

This feature is provided as a tech-preview

Enable the Domains feature to enable multi-tenancy capabilities. All installed plugins must be Domain compatible for Pulp to start. Defaults to False.

WORKER_TTL

The number of seconds before a worker should be considered lost.

Defaults to 30 seconds.

REMOTE_USER_ENVIRON_NAME

The name of the WSGI environment variable to read for webserver authentication.

Warning

Configuring this has serious security implications. See the Django warning at the end of this section in their docs for more details.

Defaults to 'REMOTE_USER'.

ALLOWED_IMPORT_PATHS

One or more real filesystem paths that Remotes with filesystem paths can import from. For example to allow a remote url of file:///mnt/foo/bar/another/folder/ you could specify:

ALLOWED_IMPORT_PATHS = ['/mnt/foo/bar']  # only a subpath is needed

Defaults to [], meaning file:/// urls are not allowed in any Remote.

ALLOWED_EXPORT_PATHS

One or more real filesystem paths that Exporters can export to. For example to allow a path of /mnt/foo/bar/another/folder/ you could specify:

ALLOWED_EXPORT_PATHS = ['/mnt/foo/bar']  # only a subpath is needed

Defaults to [] which means no path is allowed.

ALLOWED_CONTENT_CHECKSUMS

Warning

Enforcement of this setting in pulpcore and various plugins is not fully in place. It is possible that checksums not in this list may still be used in various places. This banner will be removed when it is believed all pulpcore and plugin code fully enforces this setting.

The list of content-checksums this pulp-instance is allowed to use. By default the following are used:

ALLOWED_CONTENT_CHECKSUMS = ["sha224", "sha256", "sha384", "sha512"]

The entire set of supported checksums are: md5, sha1, sha224, sha256, sha384, and sha512.

Warning

Due to its use as the primary content-identifier, “sha256” IS REQUIRED. Pulp will fail to start if "sha256" is not found in this set.

Pulp can prohibit or allow checksums by setting the ALLOWED_CONTENT_CHECKSUMS setting. Changing this setting requires a few steps.

First, before you change the setting, see how your Pulp instance will be impacted by this change by running:

pulpcore-manager handle-artifact-checksums --report --checksums sha256,512

Adjust --checksums as comma separated list of checksums types to match your needs.

Note

If you already changed ALLOWED_CONTENT_CHECKSUMS in pulp settings you can leave out --checksums, and the checksums will be parsed from Pulp settings.

Before switching, any on-demand repos containing forbidden checksum digests needs to be synced with policy=immediate to populate missing allowed checksums. This can heavily impact your disk space. Alternatively, users can remove these offending repo versions followed by orphan cleanup.

If you have artifacts that do not conform to your ALLOWED_CONTENT_CHECKSUMS setting, they need to be re-hashed. You can update them using:

pulpcore-manager handle-artifact-checksums

Warning

If Pulp fails to start because forbidden checkums have been identified or required ones are missing, run pulpcore-manager handle-artifact-checksums command.

DJANGO_GUID

Pulp uses django-guid to append correlation IDs to logging messages. Correlation IDs are autogenerated by default but can also be sent as a header with each request. They are also returned as a header in the response and are recorded in the logging_cid field of tasks.

For more information on how to configure the DJANGO_GUID setting, see the django-guid settings documentation.

ORPHAN_PROTECTION_TIME

The time specified in minutes for how long Pulp will hold orphan Content and Artifacts before they become candidates for deletion by an orphan cleanup task. This should ideally be longer than your longest running task otherwise any content created during that task could be cleaned up before the task finishes. Default is 1440 minutes (24 hours).

UPLOAD_PROTECTION_TIME and TMPFILE_PROTECTION_TIME

Pulp uses uploads and pulp temporary files to pass data from the api to worker tasks. These options allow to specify a timeinterval in minutes used for cleaning up stale entries. If set to 0, automatic cleanup is disabled, which is the default.

TASK_DIAGNOSTICS

If True, each task will record various diagnostics (listed below) to files in the dir /var/tmp/pulp/<task_UUID>/. This is False by default.

  • memory - the task’s max resident set size in MB.

ANALYTICS

If True, Pulp will anonymously post analytics information to https://analytics.pulpproject.org/ and aids in project decision making. See the analytics docs for more info on exactly what is posted along with an example.

Defaults to True.