Installs and configures Foreman, part of the Foreman installer or to be used as a Puppet module.

Many Foreman plugins can be installed by adding additional foreman::plugin::* classes, extra compute resource support via foreman::compute::* classes and the Hammer CLI can be installed by adding foreman::cli.

By default, it configures Foreman to run under Apache and Passenger plus with a PostgreSQL database. A standalone service can be configured instead by setting passenger to false, though this isn't recommended in production.

The web interface is configured to use Puppet's SSL certificates by default, so ensure they're present first, reconfigure server_ssl_* or disable the ssl parameter. When used with the 'puppet' module, it will generate a new CA and the required certificate.

Lots of parameters are supplied to tune the default installation, which may be found in the class documentation at the top of each manifest.

Other modules may be used in combination with this one: puppet for managing a Puppet master and agent, and foreman_proxy to configure Foreman's Smart Proxy and related services.

This module supports configuration of either SQLite, PostgreSQL or MySQL as the database for Foreman. The database type can be changed using the db_type parameter, or management disabled with db_manage.

The default database is PostgreSQL, which will be fully installed and managed on the host this module is applied to. Databases will be created with using the en_US.utf8 locale, which means a respective OS locale must be available on the database host. If using MySQL, the puppetlabs-mysql module must be added to the modulepath, otherwise it's not required.

At any time, the module supports two releases, however the previous version may require parameters to be changed from their default values. These should be noted below.

Thus 'master' will support the upcoming major version and the current stable. The latest release (git tag, Puppet Forge) should support current and the previous stable release.

This module targets Foreman 1.21+. Running without passenger is only supported on Foreman 1.23+. The Azure plugin support only works with Foreman 1.24+.

The Foreman userdata plugin has been merged into Foreman 1.23 and removed from this module.

To use this module without passenger, the passenger parameter must be set to false. This will install the foreman-service package and ensure the service is running.

This introduces a soft dependency on camptocamp-systemd. This feature is only available on Foreman 1.23+.

foreman_config_entry can be used to manage settings in Foreman's database, as seen in Administer > Settings. Provides:

• cli provider uses foreman-rake to change settings (default)

foreman_hostgroup can create and manage host group in Foreman's database. Providers:

• rest_v2 provider uses API v2 with apipie-bindings and OAuth (default)

foreman_smartproxy can create and manage registered smart proxies in Foreman's database. Providers:

• rest_v3 provider uses API v2 with Ruby HTTP library, OAuth and JSON (default)
• rest_v2 provider uses API v2 with apipie-bindings and OAuth

There is a function foreman::enc to retrieve the ENC data. This returns the data as a hash and can be used in Hiera. This requires the URL to use the Puppet CA infrastructure:

---
version: 5
hierarchy:
  - name: "Foreman ENC"
    data_hash: foreman::enc
    options:
      url: https://foreman.example.com

It is also possible to use HTTP basic auth by adding a username/password to the URL in the form of https://username:[email protected].

Then within your manifests you can use lookup. For example, in manifests/site.pp:

node default {
  lookup('classes', {merge => unique}).include
}

• Fork the project
• Commit and push until you are happy with your contribution
• Send a pull request with a description of your changes

See the CONTRIBUTING.md file for much more information.

Adding new foreman::plugin::* classes is a very useful place to start contributing to this module.

See https://theforeman.org or at #theforeman irc channel on freenode

Copyright (c) 2010-2013 Ohad Levy and their respective owners

Except where specified in provided modules, this program and entire repository is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or any later version.

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