Not Only The Code Benefits From The Open Source Community
The upstream versions of the Foreman and Katello projects become, among other downstream projects, the Atix’s Orcarhino and the Red Hat Satellite of tomorrow. The discussions and contributions that...
View ArticleTerminology Updates in Foreman
Over a week ago, @lzap published an RFC about removing the term blacklist from Foreman templates. A short discussion about this took place on the related Pull Request. With a wider discussion taking...
View ArticleForeman Community Newsletter (June 2020)
Foreman 2.1.0 released! Katello 3.15.2 released! Foreman Ansible Modules 1.0.0 released! Update from Red Hat Product Management, and much more!Release AnnouncementsForeman 2.1.0 released!This release...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Foreman Community Newsletter (July 2020)
Celebrating Foreman’s 11th Birthday online, updates to Katello’s release schedule, community demos, and containerizing Foreman.July was an eventful month in the Foreman Community, and nothing was more...
View ArticleForeman Community Newsletter (August 2020)
New Infrastructure SIG group, provisioning deep-dive mini survey, roadmap updates, community demos, and much more.ReleasesForeman 2.1.2 has been released!This release contains six bug fixes and...
View ArticleForeman Ansible Modules v1.3.0 released
Since the release of Foreman Ansible Modules v1.0.0, we’ve been pretty busy and managed to release v1.1.0, v1.2.0 and today v1.3.0!But we totally failed to report what has changed to a broader...
View ArticleiRonin in the Foreman Community
As outlined in Adding a vendor list to theforeman.org site, over the next few weeks, we will host some guest posts from different companies and consultants who offer professional services based on or...
View ArticleForeman Community Newsletter (September 2020)
This month, there were two Foreman releases, a Foreman Ansible modules release, a Red Hat Product Management update to the community, new and ongoing RFE discussions, as well as some new resources for...
View ArticleHow to write a new Foreman Ansible module in 20 lines of code
Some time ago, we were asked (twice) to add a module for managing HTTP proxies in Foreman to the Foreman Ansible Modules collection. Given the limited scope of the module, it’s a perfect fit for a...
View ArticleWhat does Netways do with Foreman?
As outlined in Adding a vendor list to theforeman.org site, over the next few weeks, we will host some guest posts from different companies and consultants who offer professional services based on or...
View ArticleForeman Config as Code
A while back, the Foreman developers released an Ansible Collection that contains modules to control almost any aspect of a Foreman server. This allows to apply the ‘Infrastructure as Code’ principle...
View ArticleATIX in the Foreman Community
As outlined in Adding a vendor list to theforeman.org site, over the next few weeks, we will host some guest posts from different companies and consultants who offer professional services based on or...
View ArticleForeman Ansible Modules v1.4.0 released
Okay, you know the drill, we have released Foreman Ansible Modules v1.4.0 and here is the best-of from that release!The biggest non-functional change in 1.4.0 is the vendoring of the apypie library....
View ArticleForeman Community Newsletter (October 2020)
Thanks to everyone who asked and answered questions, opened issues, and made the Foreman Community a hive of activity over the last month. Here is a summary of some of the major events, contributions,...
View ArticleForeman Community Newsletter (November 2020)
Thanks to everyone who asked and answered questions, opened issues, and made the Foreman Community a hive of activity over the last month. Here is a summary of some of the major events, contributions,...
View ArticleForeman Ansible Modules v1.5.0 released
You thought the 1.4.0 release was great? Then I bet you’ll really enjoy Foreman Ansible Modules v1.5.0 that was just released!Probably the most-awaited feature in 1.5.0 is the addition of Ansible...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How to start with Foreman
This post targets primarily users new to Foreman. It can be interesting for those, who would like to start using Foreman but feel lost or who just installed Foreman and would like to investigate its...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Updating Foreman inventory with system facts
This is a continuation of How to start with Foreman post. Today we’ll look at how the inventory can be kept up to date by receiving facts from hosts regularly. Then we’ll take a look where facts can be...
View ArticleForeman Community Newsletter (January 2021)
Foreman @ FOSDEM, What community deep dive do you want to see next? A look at some of the more interesting RFCs of the last month, and more.Foreman @ FOSDEMThis coming Saturday, there will be two...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Introduction to the Remote Execution Plugin
In this post, we’ll see how to add a remote execution plugin to the Foreman installation and look at its basic functionality. We’ll create some jobs that we execute through SSH on one or more Foreman...
View Article