1. Foreman
Ivan Nečas (@iNecas/@zlopocasny)
Senior Software Engineer | Red Hat
Rubyslava DevOps Edition
Provisioning & Configuration Management

3. The Foreman Realm
● Provisioning everything
● Configuration Management
● Inventory and Activity Reporting
● One (simple) interface/console/API for your infrastructure

4. Typical System Lifecycle
Pre/
Installation
Updates
Drift
Management
Audits
Initial
Configuration

5. Segmented NetworkSegmented Network
Smart
Proxy
Smart
Proxy
ISC
DHCP
ISC
DHCP
Smart
Proxy
Smart
Proxy
MS
DNS
TFTP
MS
DNS
TFTP
Smart
Proxy
Smart
Proxy
Pupet
CA
Pupet
CA
Smart
Proxy
Smart
Proxy
DNS
DHCP
TFTP
..
DNS
DHCP
TFTP
..
Bare Metal
RHEV-M
EC2
VMWare
OpenStack
RackSpace
Bare Metal
RHEV-M
EC2
VMWare
OpenStack
RackSpace
Smart
Proxy
Smart
Proxy
DNS
DHCP
TFTP
..
DNS
DHCP
TFTP
..
Smart
Proxy
Smart
Proxy
ISC
DHCP
BMC
ISC
DHCP
BMC
Smart
Proxy
Smart
Proxy
MS
DNS
MS
DNS
ComputeCompute
LDAP / AD
INTERNAL
LDAP / AD
INTERNALDBDB
PuppetPuppetPuppetPuppetPuppetPuppet
Smart
Proxy
Smart
Proxy
Puppet
CA
Puppet
CA
Restful API HTTP(s)Restful API HTTP(s)
ForemanForeman
Web User
API
Web User
API
Reports /
Facts / ENC
Reports /
Facts / ENC

6. Provisioning
● Public and private clouds
● Bare metal
● PXE or imaged -based
● DNS/DHCP/TFTP management via the smart proxy
● Kickstart & preseed templating

7. Node Classifier (ENC)
● Simple UI to associate hosts with recipes
● Multiple Puppet Environment support
● Allows you to group your hosts
● Variable inheritance and parameterize classes (split the
variables from the manifests)
● Update many hosts at once

8. Reporting
● Dashboard for all of your puppet hosts
● Detailed Log for what Puppet did
● Simple Search though the logs (show me all hosts/reports with
package related activities)
● Audit Log
● Summary Emails
● Alerting (API, Email etc)

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