• Table of contents
• Puppet modules for managing Foreman
  • Installation
    • A note on older puppet versions
    • Using GIT
    • Direct download
  • Requirements
  • Setup/Configuration - using the answers file (current branch only)
    • only Foreman, using Webrick instead of Passenger
    • Both foreman and its proxy, from the latest code (testing/nightly instead of stable):
    • All in one box (Puppet, Foreman, Proxy) using git for your environments:
  • Setup/Configuration - using the params.pp files (current and oldstable)
    • only Foreman
    • Both foreman and its proxy:
    • On your Puppet Master
    • All in one box (Puppet, Foreman, Proxy)

Puppet modules for managing Foreman¶

The installer can be used in multiple ways:

• Installs Foreman as a standalone application or using apache passenger.
• Installs Foreman Proxy
• May install an example puppet master setup using passenger as well, including the tweaks required for foreman.

Installation¶

A note on older puppet versions¶

The "master" branches are being updated with parameterized classes. If you are running a version of Puppet which doesn't support this (0.25.x or lower) then you should check out the "oldstable" versions of the modules. We will try to fix bugs in either branch, so bug reports are appreciated in either case. Currently, "oldstable" branches exist for:

• puppet-foreman_proxy (master not parameterized yet, but contains references to experimental DHCP/DNS modules)
• puppet-puppet (master parameterized for both agent and server, see README for details)

Using GIT¶

git clone --recursive git://github.com/theforeman/foreman-installer.git              (for the latest installer)
git clone --recursive git://github.com/theforeman/foreman-installer.git -b oldstable (for puppet 0.25.x or lower)

Direct download¶

Since we are no longer using one repository for all sources, a single tarball is no longer provided.
You can either follow the script below, or download the source code for each module on its own:

http://github.com/theforeman/puppet-apache/tarball/master
http://github.com/theforeman/puppet-foreman/tarball/master
http://github.com/theforeman/puppet-foreman_proxy/tarball/master
http://github.com/theforeman/puppet-git/tarball/master
http://github.com/theforeman/puppet-passenger/tarball/master
http://github.com/theforeman/puppet-puppet/tarball/master
http://github.com/theforeman/puppet-tftp/tarball/master
http://github.com/theforeman/puppet-xinetd/tarball/master

Optional Modules:

These provide support for the experimental DHCP/DNS auto configuration in the proxy. Use at your own risk (but send me bug reports :P)
http://github.com/theforeman/puppet-concat/tarball/master (dependency for the next two)
http://github.com/theforeman/puppet-dhcp/tarball/master
http://github.com/theforeman/puppet-dns/tarball/master

Requirements¶

if you are using RHEL, EPEL repo must be enabled http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL

if you are using Debian (or Ubuntu), see the additional notes in README.debian

Make sure SELinux is disabled or permissive when running on Fedora/RHEL.

Setup/Configuration - using the answers file (current branch only)¶

We now support using a simple YAML file to supply all your requirements. You can find this file in [download path]/foreman_installer/answers.yaml.

There are only 4 modules which can be configured this way - all the others are dependencies. These are:

foreman
puppet
puppetmaster (maps to the puppet::server class)
foreman_proxy

This file has two methods for specifying modules. To simply turn a module on or off, specify the module and true or false. For example, to install just foreman and not puppet (with all the defaults):

foreman: true
puppet: false
puppetmaster: false
foreman_proxy: true

If you need to override any of the class parameters (review */manifestes/params.pp) then you need to switch to a hash-style. These can be mixed, for example to install foreman with the defaults, but use git for puppet environments:

foreman: true
puppet:
  git_repo: true
puppetmaster: false
foreman_proxy: true

Using the hash style impicitly declares the class - there is no need to specify "true" (in fact this will throw an error, as it's not valid YAML).

Here are the some examples:

only Foreman, using Webrick instead of Passenger¶

foreman:
  passenger: false
  ssl: false
puppet: false
puppetmaster: false
foreman_proxy: false

Both foreman and its proxy, from the latest code (testing/nightly instead of stable):¶

foreman:
  use_testing: true
puppet: false
puppetmaster: false
foreman_proxy:
  use_testing: true

All in one box (Puppet, Foreman, Proxy) using git for your environments:¶

foreman: true
puppet:
  git_repo: true
puppetmaster: true
foreman_proxy: true

Any parameter found in the params.pp files in the relevant modules (foreman, foreman_proxy, and puppet) can be specified this way. If you have any issues with this, please supply your answers file when submitting the bug so we can reproduce this issue.

Once you have your answers file, you can run the foreman installer with a single line:

echo include foreman_installer | puppet --modulepath /path_to/extracted_tarball

Setup/Configuration - using the params.pp files (current and oldstable)¶

Please review the variables under */manifests/params.pp

only Foreman¶

echo include foreman | puppet --modulepath /path_to/extracted_tarball

Both foreman and its proxy:¶

echo include foreman, foreman_proxy | puppet --modulepath /path_to/extracted_tarball

On your Puppet Master¶

if you just want to include the relavant bits to run on your puppet master you may

include foreman::params, foreman::config::enc, foreman::config::reports

All in one box (Puppet, Foreman, Proxy)¶

if you want to install it all on one box (2.6.x and older)

export MODULE_PATH="/etc/puppet/modules/common" 
mkdir -p $MODULE_PATH
for mod in apache foreman foreman_proxy git passenger puppet tftp xinetd; do
  mkdir -p $MODULE_PATH/$mod
  wget http://github.com/theforeman/puppet-$mod/tarball/master -O - | tar xzvf - -C $MODULE_PATH/$mod --strip-components=1
done;
echo include puppet, puppet::server, foreman, foreman_proxy | puppet --modulepath $MODULE_PATH

if you want to install it all on one box (2.7.x and newer)

export MODULE_PATH="/etc/puppet/modules/common" 
mkdir -p $MODULE_PATH
for mod in apache concat dns dhcp foreman foreman_proxy git passenger puppet tftp xinetd; do
  mkdir -p $MODULE_PATH/$mod
  wget http://github.com/theforeman/puppet-$mod/tarball/master -O - | tar xzvf - -C $MODULE_PATH/$mod --strip-components=1
done;
echo include puppet, puppet::server, foreman, foreman_proxy | puppet apply --modulepath $MODULE_PATH