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Roadmap meeting

Please add your own wishlist here, we would review these topics during the meeting, Order has no meaning.

Dec 05 2011 : 7pm UTC on #theforeman (Freenode)

Important Issues to review

  • Mcollective integration
  • Pulp Admin integration
  • Parameterized classes support (#832)
  • Controlling the BMC through IPMI
    • control boot order
    • power controls
  • Remove dependency of virt in foreman
    • make a more generic layer that allows for any 3rd party virtualization tools (ovirt, virt, libvirt, aws, fog, ...)
  • ESX support
  • Ruby version support
  • create external service for 3rd party tools
    • wrapper service that acts as the middle man to talk to foreman and 3rd party tools
    • Can handle compatibility better
    • Better security
      • Security related issues, that so far have been handled outside Foreman, like restricting who can POST Reports and Facts. Ideally Foreman should handle them. #1169
  • Password Encryption
  • DB data versioning (Templates, parameters, etc - possibility to revert to a previous state)
  • Cloud provisioning and unattended access/security related (#969)
  • Audits to Hostgroups/Classes/Parameters/Provisioning should have be displayed on the Dashboard, perhaps with some Visualization?
  • host roles that were originally possible with puppet before adding the ENC. Roles can be assigned to host or hostgroups with a (one-to-many) relationship.
  • Full working unattended installations via proxy
  • Support NonSql Databases (redis,mongo...)
  • Add scheduling #1249
  • Discuss about new UI in Foreman (from 0.3 -> 0.4) - Fixed size columns ...
  • Discuss new SHA-512 passwords used (default) IN EL6 (foreman didn't seem to support it as last look)
  • Bulk uploading client paramaters, rather than editing 1 field at a time for a new host, hostgroup, domain, etc.
  • Alerting foreman that a host has completed provisioning when behind NAT

Organizational topics

  • Git and Release maintenance
  • Packaging
  • Puppet-Foreman deployment recipes - Isolate namespace (as in : http://bit.ly/sFabPs) ? Or not ?
  • Bug/Feature reviews

Dec 05 2011 : Report :

Mcollective

  1. functionality exposed in UI :
  • simple action : puppet kicks, services management
  • handled by proxy
  • optional

Pulp / Katello

  • Relation with Foreman should be more precise
  • Katello doesn't support non RPM disto
  • Maybe we could try a simple repo management
  • Functionnality wished :
    • Assigning repo to host
    • Pull updated
  • Mainly UI work

BMC support

Remove virt dependency

  • Can not talk to 'a cloud'
  • Dividing system into :
    • Physical
    • Virtual
  • Major code refactoring
  • Remove dependency on a particular gem and have 3d party integration (libvirt, virt, fog, ec2, ovirt)

Password encrytion

db versionning

  • Maybe use GIT as a versionning backend
  • Use only db versionning system

Cloud unattended support

  • proxy should handle unattended installation not foreman ?
  • How to solve NAT problem
  • Client should not talk to foreman during unattended installation
  • We should track host deployed by foreman with an uuid

Audits to Hostgroups/Classes/Parameters/Provisioning should be displayed on the Dashboard

  • How to track puppet manifest modification
  • Store puppet manifest in a VCS

Redesign role management

  • Creation of a role server
  • Allow multiple hostgroup assignment to a signe host => to be discussed on the ML

Git and release maintenance

  • Maintain a contribution TODO list with :
    • Code related stuff
      • patches
      • code review
    • Non code related stuff
      • bug tracking and triage
      • testing
      • wiki update
      • packaging
      • git maint
  • Packaging :
    • Deb and RPM : some help would be appreciated

Installer / Puppet module

  • Not easy to use in the first time
  • Not so many people use the upstream module
  • Isolate to foreman own namespace ?

Scheduler

  • have foreman assign a class or hostgroup based on a set date
  • good for planned outage windows

Updated by Corey Osman over 12 years ago ยท 63 revisions