Foreman Blog

Over the last two years, the Foreman community has enjoyed rapid development in the area of automating Foreman using Foreman Ansible Modules. If you’re interested in an introduction, check out @evgeni’s’ recent talk at FOSDEM 2020: Your management layer should be cattle too! as well as well as Jeffrey Van Pelt’s great blog about Foreman Config as Code. In the last while, community member @besmirzanaj also contributed a tutorial about Setting up Foreman and managing it with Ansible . Within the Foreman community, the interest and enthusiasm for automating regular Foreman tasks using Ansible is active and growing

The last month’s community news roundup. Save the date for the Foreman Birthday Party!

Read about Foreman at FOSDEM, getting started with Foreman blog series, the latest release of Foreman Ansible Modules, and more!

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 hosts. Then we’ll look at some real-world use cases of useful SSH jobs automation. We’ll show how to deploy the Puppet agent on the Foreman host and illustrate the use with home automation, running commands on SSH enabled routers.

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.