Foreman Blog

So, yet another feature not many people know about Foreman.

it is really easy to reprovision (reinstall, or even to a whole new os) an existing system without PXE.

Someone asked me today on IRC how to recover his dhcp reservations, as he was using foreman to create those, and his dhcp server died.

Since we are slow on delivering  #944, here is a short snippet that would get the job done.

Brian Gupta did a great job with coming up with a CLI for foreman, and just released it as a gem.

I’ve finally wrapped up all my bookings, and I’ll be attending both fosdem days and the following the #monitoringsucks hackfest.

Using foreman API is fairly simple, in here I’ll show an example using curl.

Using this simple script, you could automate your VM/Bare metal provision process + Puppet configuration in one simple step.