Merge branch 'master' of git.psi.ch:linux-infra/documentation

admin-guide/deployment/partitioning.rst

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ device name of the disk which should be used instead::
 
     bob node set-attr $FQDN system_disk=md126
 
-The default partition schema is:
+The default partition schema for RHEL 7 is:
 
    - create one primary ``/boot`` partition of 1Gb;
    - create the ``vg_root`` Volume Group that uses the rest of the disk;
@@ -22,6 +22,19 @@ The default partition schema is:
        - ``lv_var_log`` of 2 Gb size for ``/var/log``;
        - ``lv_tmp`` of 2 Gb size for ``/tmp``.
 
+For RHEL 8 it is:
+
+   - create one primary ``/boot`` partition of 1Gb;
+   - create the ``vg_root`` Volume Group that uses the rest of the disk;
+   - on ``vg_root`` create the following logical volumes:
+       - ``lv_root`` of 14 Gb size for ``/root``;
+       - ``lv_home`` of 2 Gb size for ``/home``;
+       - ``lv_var`` of 8 Gb size for ``/var``;
+       - ``lv_var_log`` of 3 Gb size for ``/var/log``;
+       - ``lv_var_tmp`` of 2 Gb size for ``/var/log``;
+       - ``lv_tmp`` of 2 Gb size for ``/tmp``.
+
+To increase these sizes, you might use :doc:`vgroot::path <../puppet/profiles/vgroot>` in Hiera.
 
 Custom Partitioning
 -------------------
@@ -34,3 +47,5 @@ The ``partitions`` attribute can take two values:
 
 If it is not possible to download the given URL the system fails-back to manual at installation time.
 Please also note that no check is done on the URL content. 
+
+Note that if you want to do add partitions outside of the on the system disk (while keeping above default partitioning for it), you might use Puppet and the `lvm Puppet module <https://forge.puppet.com/modules/puppetlabs/lvm>`_ instead to define the full LVM volume group.

admin-guide/puppet/modules.rst

@@ -243,6 +243,7 @@ Profiles
    profiles/ssh_server.rst
    profiles/sysinfo
    profiles/telegraf
+   profiles/vgroot
    profiles/web_server
 
 

admin-guide/puppet/profiles/vgroot.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+``profile::vgroot``
+=======================
+
+This module allows to resize logical volumes/partitions on the default volume group ``vg_root``.
+
+If you alternatively want to control the full volume group or add an additional one, please configure in Hiera the `lvm Puppet module <https://forge.puppet.com/modules/puppetlabs/lvm>`_.
+
+
+Parameters
+----------
+
+===============================  ========  ================================================
+**Name**                         **Type**  **Default**
+-------------------------------  --------  ------------------------------------------------
+vgroot                           hash      hiera_hash('vgroot::path')
+===============================  ========  ================================================
+
+
+``vgroot``
+~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+A hash containing as key the name of the volume group (``/dev/mapper/vg_root-$NAME``) to be adjusted and the volume size as value::
+
+  vgroot::path:
+    lv_root: 20GB
+
+The contained file system will then automatically resized if needed.

rhel8/index.md

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ It looks like it works already a lot out of the box, but no guarantee can be giv
 
 ## Major Known Issues
 
-- using a package snapshot tag (`yum_client::repo_tag` in hiera) different than `prod` will fail horribly
+- 
 
 ## Major Missing Features