Plugins » Katello

I'm a current user of Foreman and am trying to migrate to Katello but am running into some restrictions when configuring the puppet master to match our current workflow.

For example:

• We use the future parser. Under the foreman installer there is an option to set this. Under the Katello installer I have worked around the lack of this option by setting puppet::server_parser: future in /var/lib/heira/common.yaml.
• We also use a git branch to puppet environment workflow and I'm not ready to migrate to the Katello content view model. Again I was able to work around this by setting puppet::server_git_repo: true through hiera.
• Finally, we also use exported resources through PuppetDB. I have not been able to work around this using hiera because /usr/share/katello-installer/modules/capsule/manifests/init.pp explicitly sets puppet::server_storeconfigs_backend to false.

What I would like to see:

• I'm okay with using hiera to set unsupported puppet server parameters, but it would be nice to support these through the katello installer so I can keep all of my configuration in a single location (answers.katello-installer.yaml).
• The capsule manifest should not explicitly set puppet::server_storeconfigs_backend or any other parameters for the puppet class that are not controllable in some way through the installer and that are not critical to the correct operation of the puppet master with Katello.

Environment:

CentOS Linux release 7.1.1503 (Core)
katello-installer: 2.3.1-6.el7
foreman: 1.9.3-1.el7

Thank you