• Table of contents
• Puppet modules for managing Foreman
  • Requirements
  • Setup/Configuration
  • Installation
    • Foreman only
    • Foreman and its Proxy on the same host
    • install it all on one box (PuppetMaster, Foreman and the 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.

download the installer from http://github.com/ohadlevy/puppet-foreman/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

Setup/Configuration¶

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

Installation¶

Foreman only¶

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

Foreman and its Proxy on the same host¶

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

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

install it all on one box (PuppetMaster, Foreman and the proxy)¶

export MODULE_PATH="/etc/puppet/modules/common" 
mkdir -p $MODULE_PATH
wget http://github.com/ohadlevy/puppet-foreman/tarball/master -O - |tar xzvf - -C $MODULE_PATH --strip-components=1
echo include puppet, puppet::server, foreman, foreman_proxy | puppet --modulepath $MODULE_PATH