Introducing myself!
I would like to take this opportunity to introduce myself, I am Rahul Bajaj and I have been working as a Software Engineer at Red Hat for a year and a half now. I am the co-maintainer of Foreman...
View ArticleForeman Community Newsletter (February 2019)
Welcome back to the Foreman Newsletter! We kinda slipped up in January, sorry about that, but we’re back with 2 months of news, gossip, and releases for you! Changes in the community team At the start...
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Merge time vs Change complexity in Foreman Core
In this post I’m going to dig into some of the data we have on GitHub about how our community functions. In particular, I’m looking to investigate some of the issues raised on Discourse to help draw...
View ArticleForeman Proxy Registration Protocol v2 explained
Foreman Proxy Registration Protocol v2 explained In Foreman 1.22 the Proxy registration protocol changed. This blog takes a look at how it was, how it’ll be and why this is an improvement. Classic...
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2019 Foreman Survey Analysis
As per usual, we ran a Foreman Community Survey in February order to give you all the opportunity to tell us how we’re doing - where it’s good, and where it’s bad. That survey closed a while ago, and...
View ArticleInstall ESXi through Foreman using iPXE bootstrapping
This post is intended to simplify the ESXi installation process described in the previous post using the new iPXE bootstrapping feature of Foreman introduced in v1.20. Requirements A fully working...
View ArticleForeman Community Newsletter (June 2019)
Welcome back to the Foreman Newsletter! We kinda slipped up in May, sorry about that, but we’re back with 3 months of news, gossip, and releases for you! Joining the community team At the start of...
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Foreman’s 10th Birthday Party Celebration @NETWAYS
Prelude The Foreman birthday event was a community driven one-day celebration. It was held at the NETWAYS office in Nuremberg on 25th July 2019. The event consisted of 2 hours of hacking and demo...
View ArticleDropping support for MySQL
Foreman is essentially a Ruby on Rails application. A big one. And Ruby on Rails applications usually support multiple relational databases thanks to ActiveRecord stack. That’s also the case for...
View ArticleAutomating Foreman and Katello with Ansible
Foreman is a great tool to automate all the things around your infrastructure, but how can you automate Foreman itself? Using Ansible and the Foreman Ansible Modules of course! As a reader of this blog...
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Open Source Camp on Foreman 2019 Review
Like every year there was an Open Source Camp following the OSMC and as usual we helped organize that. Just in case you aren’t aware of what an Open Source Camp is here is the just of it: It’s meant to...
View ArticleForeman Community Newsletter (November 2019)
Welcome back to the Foreman Newsletter! After a few months full of conferences that kept our community team very busy, we are now back for good :)1.24 RC2 && Katello 3.14 RC1 are out!The first...
View ArticleForeman Community Newsletter (December 2019)
We have plenty of conferences next month and tickets are running out fast! We are also looking for a new community manager, details below :)1.24 released!Foreman 1.24 is out with almost 250 features...
View ArticleForeman Community Newsletter (January 2020)
Community Survey is now Live!Community SurveyThe Survey is open!!As every year we use our conference season as an opportunity to get as much feedback as we can from you! Those who attend conferences...
View ArticleForeman Community Newsletter (February-March 2020)
ConferencesWe had quite a presence at FOSDEM and Config Management Camp! We had our usual booth at FOSDEM, which was a bit less crowded than past years thanks to its new location. We continued on to...
View ArticleHello from the new Community Manager
Hi everyone,As of April 1, I became Community Manager both for the Foreman and Pulp communities. Over the last few days, I have been finding my way around and would like to take a few minutes to...
View ArticleForeman Community Newsletter (April 2020)
While the world goes through a period of unprecedented change, which you’re probably tired of reading about, work continues on all fronts in the Foreman community.Foreman 2.0 is releasedAfter 24...
View ArticleKatello - Saying goodbye to Pulp 2
Hello All!With the release of Katello 3.15 we have introduced Pulp 3 as a backend service to manage content. Over the next couple of releases we will phase in Pulp 3 and phase out Pulp 2:3.15:...
View ArticleForeman Community Newsletter (May 2020)
As the weather improves and the world starts to open up, take some time to catch up with the latest Foreman Community news!Foreman 1.24.3 has been releasedAs well as a number of general and UI bug...
View ArticleForeman Ansible Modules v1.0.0 released
You’ve probably heard already me talking about how you can automate Foreman using Ansible and our Foreman Ansible Modules. And if you did, I have great news for you: we just released v1.0.0 - the first...
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