Alternate Content Sources

Warning

This feature requires plugin support to work correctly.

Warning

This feature is provided as a tech preview and could change in backwards incompatible ways in the future

Overview

Pulp supports the concept of Alternate Content Sources which sync content using a Remote. Each content source is a potential alternate provider of files that are associated with content units in Pulp. The next time Pulp needs to download a file associated with a content unit, it searches ACSes for alternate sources.

Create an Alternate Content Source

To create an ACS, you’ll need a Remote with the “on_demand” policy. You can have an ACS point to multiple Repositories by specifying the paths parameter. Each path will be appended to the Remote’s url.

pulp <plugin_name> acs create --name <acs_name> --remote <remote> --path <path> --path <path>

Note

The path option is optional and can be specified multiple times. If a path is not provided, the url of your remote is used to search for content.

Update an Alternate Content Source

To update an ACS, use a similar call to your ACS but with update command:

pulp <plugin_name> acs update --name <acs_name> --remote <remote>

To add or remove paths, use the path subcommand:

pulp <plugin_name> acs path add --name <acs_name> --path <path>
pulp <plugin_name> acs path remove --name <acs_name> --path <path>

Refresh

To make the ACS available the next time you sync, you will need to call the refresh command. It will go through your paths and catalog content from your content source.

pulp <plugin_name> acs refresh --name <acs_name>