Dennis Kliban

Pulp (https://pulpproject.org) enables users to organize and distribute software. Now that Pulp 3.0 is generally available, it’s time to integrate it into your software delivery workflows. While the REST API is the primary integration point, it is the OpenAPI schema definition of that API that enables users to build client libraries in various languages. These clients simplify the integration with Pulp 3.

This talk will provide a brief introduction to OpenAPI. This will be followed by a demonstration of how to use the Pulp’s OpenAPI schema to generate a Python client for Pulp’s REST API. The Python client will then be used to perform various workflows in Pulp 3.

Pulp is a platform for managing repositories of software packages, but it can store any kind of binary data (e.g. cat photos). The core provides a REST API and manages files, but the real value for users is delivered by the plugins which allows core to manage a content type like a cat photo. The upcoming 3.0 release of Pulp includes a relational database, a new REST API, and a semantically versioned plugin API. This talk is going to briefly explain how Pulp is used, highlight the technologies under the hood, demonstrate the REST API, and show off the plugin API that will be included in Pulp 3.0.