Foreman

Foreman is aimed to be a Single Address For All Machines Life Cycle Management.

  • Foreman integrates with Puppet (and acts as web front end to it).
  • Foreman takes care of provisioning until the point puppet is running, allowing Puppet to do what it does best.
  • Foreman shows you Systems Inventory (based on Facter) and provides real time information about hosts status based on Puppet reports.
  • Foreman creates everything you need when adding a new machine to your network,It’s goal being automatically managing everything you would normally manage manually - this include DNS, DHCP, TFTP, Virtual Machines, PuppetCA, CMDB etc.

Sample pillar

Foreman server to use with apache

foreman:
  server:
    enabled: true
    domain: domain.com
    fqdn: foreman.domain.com
    database:
      engine: 'postgresql'
      host: '127.0.0.1'
      name: 'foreman'
      password: 'password'
      user: 'foreman'
    mail:
      host: mail.domain.com
      password: passwd
      user: robot@domain.com
      domain: domain.com

Foreman smart proxy

foreman:
  smart_proxy:
    enabled: true

Usage

Generated user:pasword is in database seed and printed to the output during db:seed process.

Documentation and Bugs

To learn how to install and update salt-formulas, consult the documentation available online at:

In the unfortunate event that bugs are discovered, they should be reported to the appropriate issue tracker. Use Github issue tracker for specific salt formula:

For feature requests, bug reports or blueprints affecting entire ecosystem, use Launchpad salt-formulas project:

You can also join salt-formulas-users team and subscribe to mailing list:

Developers wishing to work on the salt-formulas projects should always base their work on master branch and submit pull request against specific formula.

Any questions or feedback is always welcome so feel free to join our IRC channel:

#salt-formulas @ irc.freenode.net