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I would love to see a network template that works with auto provisioning and/or single host provisioning.

Right now provisioning bonded servers means editing multiple interfaces, setting them to managed, creating a bond and if you use vlan tagging then creating a virtual interface on the bond and its error prone/cumbersome.

Would be nice to have a some kind of rules.. like "bond if active interface > 1" or if the discovery image could bond all active interfaces and create a host record with a default bond0.vlanid so all you have to do is change hostname/update ip

Yeah, I was thinking instead of creating a copy of our New Host form to give users chance to provide a piece of code that is executed during auto-provisioning and allows complex setups. We could reuse our template rendering and safe_mode code in order to associate a "template" that does something with the host. Something like:

<%
provision = @host.interfaces.provision.first
slave1 = @host.interfaces.where(:provision => false).first
slave2 = @host.interfaces.where(:provision => false).second
@host.interfaces.create_bond(slave1, slave2)
@host.name = "my_very_own_name_" + rand(12345)
@host.subnet = Subnet.find("192.168.77.0") if provision.mac ~= /^99:/
@host.save!
%>

For the record, there is a new effort emerging to replace our simple shell-based network provisioning template with more complex JSON-based configurator: https://github.com/ares/foreman_net_templates

Maybe if there is a possibility to freely associate this new kind of template with arbitrary hosts/hostgroups, then it can solve the problem (if we add required helper methods and variables to the safe_mode).

The JSON idea is not relevant, scratch my previous comment. But what I described above is still valid.

WORKAROUND: It was found found that the best way is to just write a script to do the bonding as part of provisioning.