Foreman Blog

Linux image installs for Bare Metal

This is a re-post from my brand new blog Something FAIL. It makes sense to post it in The Foreman blog as its about my motivation and thoughts on writing a image install plugin and that it is in fact used in conjunction with Foreman. So here goes:

Are you like me that use preseed/kickstart netboot installs for physical nodes and perhaps use images prepped with cloud-init to deploy virtual nodes? Having two or more different ways of deploying bare metal, virtual servers, multiple ways of bootstrapping a node. Have you been thinking or wanting to deploy physical nodes the same way you would virtual ones? Are you tired of the whole setup that needs to be different on different scenarios?
If so, read on.

Foreman Community Newsletter - September 2017

Foreman 1.16, updated plugins, important survey and a bunch of new videos. Enjoy!

Creating an auto healing Foreman Proxy

Auto healing infrastructure allows scalability, predictability and automated recovery. This is the story of how we created an auto healing Foreman Smart Proxy with Packer, Terraform & Ansible on AWS.

Foreman Community Newsletter - August 2017

Foreman 1.16, Katello 3.4.5, plugin maintainer policy, and a bunch of new videos. Enjoy!

Foreman Community Newsletter - July 2017

Happy birthday to us, happy birthday to us...

Foreman 3.16.0 has been released! Follow the quick start to install it.

Foreman 3.15.0 has been released! Follow the quick start to install it.