RPM's distribution based installation¶

We maintain a repository for RHEL and Fedora (and clones) - you may add it via:

Stable¶

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

Development¶

1.) For RHEL 6 ensure your system is subscribed to EPEL.

For RHEL 5 you will need to be subscribed to both EPEL and the RHEL Virtualization RHN Channel.
Also be advised, that on RHEL5 the Foreman Repo will update Ruby to version 1.8.7. This has
the potential to break stuff (like passenger, notes on getting it working again below),
so be sure you want to proceed before committing to the installation.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL

2.) Install the foreman-release.rpm for your version of RHEL or Fedora

http://yum.theforeman.org/development/el5/foreman-release.rpm
http://yum.theforeman.org/development/el6/foreman-release.rpm
http://yum.theforeman.org/development/f16/foreman-release.rpm
http://yum.theforeman.org/development/f17/foreman-release.rpm

3.) Install foreman and other foreman-* packages to add functionality:

foreman               Foreman server
foreman-proxy         Foreman Smart Proxy
foreman-cli           Foreman CLI utility
foreman-libvirt       libvirt provisioning support
foreman-ovirt         ovirt/RHEV provisioning support
foreman-ec2           EC2 provisioning support
foreman-vmware        VMware provisioning support
foreman-console       Console additions
foreman-mysql         MySQL database support
foreman-mysql2        MySQL database support
foreman-postgresql    PostgreSQL database support
foreman-sqlite        SQLite database support
foreman-test          Testing support (dependency rpm's not built yet)
foreman-devel         Development support (dependency rpm's not built yet)

5.) Configure

Edit /etc/foreman/settings.yaml and /etc/foreman/database.yml
su - foreman -s /bin/bash -c /usr/share/foreman/extras/dbmigrate

6.) Start the foreman service or set up passenger

service foreman start

Or:

Passenger packages/repos are available at http://passenger.stealthymonkeys.com/
Note that because Foreman requires ruby 1.8.7 it is upgraded on RHEL5 and so the RPM's at the URL above will not run on RHEL5. 
Fortunately it is fairly easy to get it working again. After foreman is installed ensure /usr/sbin is in your path so that 
the axps binary can be found, otherwise the rpm's may fail to build while complaining about being unable to find some files.
Then do the following:
yum localinstall http://passenger.stealthymonkeys.com/rhel/5/x86_64/rubygem-daemon_controller-0.2.5-1.noarch.rpm
wget http://passenger.stealthymonkeys.com/SRPMS/rubygem-passenger-3.0.12-1.src.rpm 
yum-builddep rubygem-passenger-3.0.12-1.src.rpm 
rpmbuild --rebuild rubygem-passenger-3.0.12-1.src.rpm

Example RHEL6 setup:

yum install http://mirror.symnds.com/distributions/fedora-epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-7.noarch.rpm 
yum install http://yum.theforeman.org/development/el6/foreman-release.rpm
yum install foreman foreman-proxy foreman-ovirt foreman-sqlite foreman-ec2 foreman-console foreman-libvirt foreman-vmware 
vi /etc/settings/settings.yaml /etc/settings/database.yml
su - foreman -s /bin/bash -c /usr/share/foreman/extras/dbmigrate

Getting the RPMS¶

If you just want to get the rpms:

http://yum.theforeman.org