Questions tagged [foreman]
The Foreman is a complete lifecycle management tool for physical and virtual servers.
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Puppet Environments, Classes, and Config groups grayed out after foreman upgrade
I am trying to bring our foreman environment up to the latest version. I upgraded foreman from 2.3.5 -> 2.4.1 -> 2.5.4 -> 3.0.1 -> 3.1.3
The 2.5.4 version displayed the following messages:
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How to change the URL for Web UI Foreman?
Hi Can I change the url link for the web UI interface? I am using Foreman 3.9 versions. I try to change url with foreman-installer --foreman-url but I get error with ssl-certificate problem. Changing ...
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Continous delivery using Gitlab, Foreman and Puppet
We are using different tools to orchestrate our environment. On one side, we have Puppet and Foreman to deploy our different server applications, on the other side, we are using Gitlab in order to ...
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Foreman - Using Global / Host Variables in YAML Config
I'm having a little trouble working with the Global Variables in Foreman. I have a global variable called ALLOW_AD_USERS which I can see in the facts section against the host. I'm trying to use this ...
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Best way to provisionning CentOS
I began my new work, it's in a small infrastructure but they often provisionning new virtual machines under CentOS.
Currently they used template in VMWare VCenter but it's just a clone and when they ...
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foreman.facts in ansible playbook
Iam using the foreman.py script for creating a dynamic inventory. How can I use the collected facts from the foreman.facts file in my ansible playbooks?
ll /etc/ansible/foreman*
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How to monitor hosts with foreman when there's only one-way traffic allowed?
I am currently setting up a PoC with foreman to monitor the configuration of some hosts. This works great.
I am wondering, how could I monitor hosts in our DMZ? Where only one way traffic is allowed (...
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Foreman manifest - Trigger action on Puppet class parameters change
I am new to Puppet and I do support a small windows environment with mostly web services and console apps, all managed by Foreman/Puppet.
I've managed to write several manifests, which keep those ...
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virt-manager vm console requires password
I have just started learning foreman. I added a KVM host to the foreman as a compute resource.
I can now provision VMs from foreman now but I cannot view the console of the VMs that are provisioned ...
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libvirt connection as non-root user
I'm trying to configure a libvirt compute resource in Foreman and have both KVM and Foreman installed on the same Centos 7 host.
Adding the compute resource with qemu+ssh://[email protected]....
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Q: How to define Apache modules via Puppet and Hiera?
I am currently using Puppet with Foreman 1.17 and puppetlabs/apache version 3.1.0. All virtual hosts are defined using a .yaml file:
apache::vhost:
vm12345_ssl:
servername: my.example.com
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Foreman chrashed with runtime error
In my foreman/katello installation I have the following error message:
Web application could not be started
(RuntimeError)
/opt/theforeman/tfm/root/usr/share/gems/gems/ffi-1.4.0/lib/ffi/library....
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WinPE as installation tool
I have succesfully created a WinPE image which includes a simple script to auto-install windows. This image is used to boot via PXE. As soon as WinPE is "booted" it asks the server which windows image ...
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Using Foreman's host groups in hiera.yaml :hierarchy section
Does anyone know how to set a correct path in :hierarchy section of hiera.yaml config to apply configuration to Foreman's host groups? I tried to use this settings with %{::hostgroup} variable, but it ...
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Puppet not pulling Hiera value
Learning Puppet and Hiera and I've run into a roadblock. I apologize in advance if this is something simple. Given the following files within my GitLab for the PuppetClass es_strat:
hiera.yaml
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