beaker¶

The Beaker (bkr) provider manages a single resource, bkr_server.

bkr_server¶

Beaker instances are provisioned using this resource.

Topology Example

The ansible modules for beaker are written and bundled as part of LinchPin.

Additional Dependencies¶

The beaker resource group requires several additional dependencies. The following must be installed.

beaker-client>=23.3

It is also recommended to install the python bindings for kerberos.

python-krbV

For a Fedora 26 machine, the dependencies could be installed using dnf.

$ sudo dnf install python-krbV
$ wget https://beaker-project.org/yum/beaker-server-Fedora.repo
$ sudo mv beaker-server-Fedora.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/
$ sudo dnf install beaker-client

Alternatively, with pip, possibly within a virtual environment.

$ pip install linchpin[beaker]

Credentials Management¶

Beaker provides several ways to authenticate. LinchPin supports these methods.

Kerberos
OAuth2

Note

LinchPin doesn’t support the username/password authentication mechanism. It’s also not recommended by the Beaker Project, except for initial setup.