Welcome to the November 2013 issue of the Foreman newsletter.
CfgMgmtCamp.eu Foreman track announced
Join the Foreman team at CfgMgmtCamp.eu in Ghent, Belgium on 3-4th February 2014 for a series of talks on all aspects of the project.
CfgMgmtCamp.eu will host a selection of the biggest configuration and systems management projects for two days after FOSDEM 2014, and is a short train ride from Brussels.
The call for papers is open until 1st December, and we’d love to hear about how you use Foreman in your organization or projects.
Foreman 1.3.1 update released
The first update to Foreman 1.3 has been released, fixing a number of bugs found in 1.3.0.
More information in the announcement and release notes.
Foreman Discovery oVirt-based image
Lukas Zapletal has announced a new image based on oVirt Node which contains a far better range of drivers and firmware for systems, and is RPM-based. It works as a plugin to oVirt, so it extends the existing image building mechanism, which you can replicate and customize.
Further watching
A recording of the latest additions to Foreman, available already in nightly packages, has been posted. It features nested fact support, host creation via the Hammer CLI and updates on the Katello and MCollective plugins.
The team regularly holds “deep dive” sessions to explore a new feature or topic. Join the Foreman Google+ community to keep up with these events. Here are the recent recordings:
- OpenStack provisioning with plugins: a walkthrough of provisioning RDO OpenStack hosts with foreman_setup and foreman_openstack_cluster
- New oVirt Node based image for Discovery: demoing of the new oVirt Node image and how it’s built
- Plugin registration and menus: a new mechanism for plugins to register and extend Foreman’s menu
- System vs Host: a discussion of whether to rename “host” to “system” (background)