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Ohad Levy, 11/10/2010 06:42 PM
- Table of contents
- Requirements
- Download
- Initial setup
- Future Updates
- Problems?
Requirements¶
before you start, make sure you have:
- Puppet >= 0.24-4
- rake >= 0.84
- rubygems
- ruby-sqlite3 (libsqlite3-ruby) if you are going to use sqlite as your database
- git (if installing from source )
The installation has been successfully tested on RHEL, Fedora(13/14) and Ubuntu 8.04 - 10.04, for older operating systems you might need additional packages (e.g. sqlite)
Download¶
Puppet Module ready to use¶
You may try out the puppet Foreman module, this should take care for most of the basic setup.
The module could be downloaded via: http://github.com/ohadlevy/puppet-foreman/tarball/master
you may use puppet (if you don't want to add it as a module to your puppetmaster) in the following way:
if you are using RHEL, EPEL repo must be enabled http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL
If you are using puppet store configs please set $using_store_configs to true in foreman/manifests/init.pp.
If you want this module to configure passenger as well, set $using_passenger to true in foreman/manifests/init.pp
usage:
echo include foreman | puppet --verbose --modulepath /path_to/tarball
Its recommend to review the module prior usage.
Debian / Ubuntu Packages¶
Add one of the following lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list
:
# For stable packages deb http://deb.theforeman.org/ stable main # For testing packages deb http://deb.theforeman.org/ testing main
The public key for secure APT can be downloaded here
You can add this key with
sudo apt-key add foreman.asc
or combine downloading and registering:
wget -q http://deb.theforeman.org/foreman.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -
The key fingerprint is
1DCB 15D1 2CA1 40EE F494 7E57 66CF 053F E775 FF07 Foreman Archive Signing Key <packages@theforeman.org>
To install Foreman, run
sudo apt-get update # Depending on the database you want to use with Foreman, # install one of these: sudo apt-get install foreman-mysql sudo apt-get install foreman-pgsql sudo apt-get install foreman-sqlite3
RPM¶
We maintain a repository for RHEL and Fedora (and clones) - you may add it via:
Puppet¶
yumrepo { 'foreman': descr => 'Foreman Repo', baseurl => 'http://yum.theforeman.org/stable', gpgcheck => '0', enabled => '1' }
Quick and dirty¶
cat > /etc/yum.repos.d/foreman.repo << EOF [foreman] name=Foreman Repo baseurl=http://yum.theforeman.org/stable gpgcheck=0 enabled=1 EOF
yum install foreman
if you just want to get the rpms:
Latest stable release¶
Latest stable version can be found under the files section
Latest source code¶
You can get the latest source code of Foreman from the git repository hosted at github.
This is the preferred way to get Foreman if you want to benefit from the latest improvements. By using the git repository you can also upgrade more easily.
to get latest "stable" version do:
git clone git://github.com/ohadlevy/foreman.git foreman
cd foreman
git submodule init
git submodule update
- if you are behind a proxy or firewall and dont have access to github using the git protocol, use http protocol instead (e.g.)
git clone http://github.com/ohadlevy/foreman.git foreman cd foreman sed -i 's/git:\/\//http:\/\//g' .gitmodules git submodule init git submodule update
Daily snapshot¶
You can also fetch the latest daily snapshot of the development version at:
http://theforeman.org/foreman-nightly.tar.bz2
Initial setup¶
Database¶
Foreman uses a database, this database can be shared with Puppet store-configs (they are compatible, as Foreman extends the puppet database schema).
By default, SQLite is used, if you want to use other database (e.g. MySQL) please modify the configuration file under config/database.yml.
If you want to share the database with Puppets (storeconfig), just modify config/database.yml to point to the same database configuration as puppet is.
In both cases, please use the production settings.
to initialize the database schema type:
RAILS_ENV=production rake db:migrate
Import Data from Puppet¶
At this point, you might want to go through the FAQ to see how can you import your data into Foreman.
Start The Web Server¶
if you installed via rpm, just start the foreman service, or start the built in web server by typing:./script/server -e production
and point your browser to http://foreman:3000
If you would like to keep the server running, its recommend to setup passenger or use the RPM.
example usage with passenger can be found here: http://github.com/ohadlevy/puppet-foreman/blob/master/foreman/templates/foreman-vhost.conf.erb
Future Updates¶
Problems?¶
see Troubleshooting
Updated by Ohad Levy almost 14 years ago · 32 revisions