Compute Resources¶

Compute Resources are providers which can create new virtual machines / instances.

The main features for Compute Resources are :

• Abilitity to create VM with multiple disks and NICs or a cloud instance based of an image
• Console directly integrated in Foreman UI
• Support of Power Management and full deletion of Host/VM in Foreman UI
• Full RBAC (Role Based Access Control) for Compute Resources, this allows to define who can deploy VM's/instances

Currently Supported Compute Resources¶

oVirt¶

Libvirt¶

Uses the "virt" and "libvirt" rubygems. If using an RPM-based Foreman installation, install "foreman-libvirt" to install all dependencies and the bundler.d configuration (without this, the gems won't get loaded).

EC2¶

See more description at http://blog.theforeman.org/2012/05/ec2-provisioning-using-foreman.html

VMWare VCenter¶

see VMWARE ESX/Vcenter Integration

Currently in experimental state, the following is supported

• list VM's
• View VM graphical console

OpenStack¶

Templates¶

The following functions are available in provisioning templates when deploying using a compute resource:

Name	Description	Example
@host.capabilities	The way we are provisioning our system, can be either build(e.g kickstart) or Image	if @host.capabilities.include?(:image) ...
@host.provider	The Compute Resource Provider	@host.provider == "EC2"

for a complete list review TemplateWriting