ManageiqForeman

This allows manageiq to use foreman as a provider

Quick collaboration work to nail down our use cases with the foreman

Pre-workflows

• EngOps registers baremetal via ISO (when racking new hardware)

  • burn iso
  • boot machine with iso
  • via cd, foreman discovers machine and creates foreman host record

• discovery in foreman

• discovery via manageiq (no)

• assign ipmi (iDrac - dell's ipmi hardware)

• assign primary interface: mac

• assign os architecture

Foreman setup (DevOps)

OS contains:

• 1 customization template
• list of acceptable media, ptable

Hostgroup contains:

• environment, puppet ca, puppet master, network/domain
• optionally: os, media, partition table

subnet contains:

• all network information except for ipaddress

Provision Bare metal (User)

• Catalog
  • pxe server [server / image] (pxe only)
  • Host Group
  • OS
• Customize:
  • root password
  • host name
  • ip address
  • subnet
  • medium
  • ptable
  • subnet is replacing gateway, dns, ...
  • medium/ptable is replacing template

workflows for another day

inventory

• get list of all foreman hosts
• determine if we already have a vm for that host record / link them

register VM via ManageIq (at provisioning time)

• we create VM in VMWare
  • via rest protocol create foreman host record
  • set primary interface mac address