Publish and Host

This section assumes that you have a repository with content in it (a repository version). To do this, see the sync or upload documentation.

Create a Publication (manually)

Create PublicationOutput

#!/usr/bin/env bash
echo "Create a new publication specifying the repository_version."
PUBLICATION_HREF=$(pulp file publication create --repository $REPO_NAME --version 1 | jq -r '.pulp_href')

echo "Inspecting Publication."
pulp show --href $PUBLICATION_HREF

{
    "pulp_created": "2019-05-16T19:28:42.971611Z",
    "pulp_href": "/pulp/api/v3/publications/file/file/7d5440f6-202c-4e71-ace2-14c534f6df9e/",
    "distributions": [],
    "publisher": null,
    "repository": "/pulp/api/v3/repositories/e242c556-bf46-4330-9c81-0be5432e55ba/file/file/",
    "repository_version": "/pulp/api/v3/repositories/e242c556-bf46-4330-9c81-0be5432e55ba/file/file/versions/1/"
}

Create a Distribution for the Publication

Create DistributionOutput

#!/usr/bin/env bash

export DIST_NAME=$(head /dev/urandom | tr -dc a-z | head -c5)
export DIST_BASE_PATH=$(head /dev/urandom | tr -dc a-z | head -c5)

# Distributions are created asynchronously.
echo "Creating distribution \
  (name=$DIST_NAME, base_path=$DIST_BASE_PATH publication=$PUBLICATION_HREF)."
pulp file distribution create \
  --name $DIST_NAME \
  --base-path $DIST_BASE_PATH \
  --publication $PUBLICATION_HREF

echo "Inspecting Distribution."
pulp file distribution show --name $DIST_NAME

{
    "pulp_created": "2019-05-16T19:28:45.135868Z",
    "pulp_href": "/pulp/api/v3/distributions/file/file/9e9e07cb-b30f-41c5-a98b-583185f907e2/",
    "base_path": "foo",
    "base_url": "localhost:24816/pulp/content/foo",
    "content_guard": null,
    "name": "baz",
    "repository": null,
    "publication": "/pulp/api/v3/publications/file/file/7d5440f6-202c-4e71-ace2-14c534f6df9e/"
}

Download 1.iso from Pulp

Download after syncDownload after upload

#!/usr/bin/env bash
DISTRIBUTION_BASE_URL=$(pulp file distribution show --name $DIST_NAME | jq -r '.base_url')

# Next we download a file from the distribution
echo "Downloading file from Distribution via the content app."
echo ${DISTRIBUTION_BASE_URL}1.iso
http -d ${DISTRIBUTION_BASE_URL}1.iso

#!/usr/bin/env bash
DISTRIBUTION_BASE_URL=$(pulp file distribution show --name $DIST_NAME | jq -r '.base_url')

echo "Downloading file from Distribution via the content app."
echo $DISTRIBUTION_BASE_URL/$ARTIFACT_RELATIVE_PATH
# This will default to http://
http -d $DISTRIBUTION_BASE_URL/$ARTIFACT_RELATIVE_PATH

Automate Publication and Distribution

With a little more initial setup, you can have publications and distributions for your repositories updated automatically when new repository versions are created.

# This configures the repository to produce new publications when a new version is created
pulp file repository update --name $REPO_NAME --autopublish

# This configures the distribution to be track the latest repository version for a given repository
pulp file distribution update --name $DIST_NAME --repository $REPO_NAME