Roadmap meeting¶

Please add your own wishlist here, we would review these topics during the meeting, Order has no meaning.

Dec 05 2011 : 7pm UTC on #theforeman (Freenode)¶

Important Issues to review¶

• Mcollective integration
• Pulp Admin integration
• Parameterized classes support (#832)
• Controlling the BMC through IPMI
  • control boot order
  • power controls
• Remove dependency of virt in foreman
  • make a more generic layer that allows for any 3rd party virtualization tools (ovirt, virt, libvirt, aws, fog, ...)
• ESX support
• Ruby version support
• create external service for 3rd party tools
  • wrapper service that acts as the middle man to talk to foreman and 3rd party tools
  • Can handle compatibility better
  • Better security
    • Security related issues, that so far have been handled outside Foreman, like restricting who can POST Reports and Facts. Ideally Foreman should handle them. #1169
• Password Encryption
• DB data versioning (Templates, parameters, etc - possibility to revert to a previous state)
• Cloud provisioning and unattended access/security related (#969)
• Audits to Hostgroups/Classes/Parameters/Provisioning should have be displayed on the Dashboard, perhaps with some Visualization?
• host roles that were originally possible with puppet before adding the ENC. Roles can be assigned to host or hostgroups with a (one-to-many) relationship.
• Full working unattended installations via proxy
• Support NonSql Databases (redis,mongo...)
• Add scheduling #1249
• Discuss about new UI in Foreman (from 0.3 -> 0.4) - Fixed size columns ...
• Discuss new SHA-512 passwords used (default) IN EL6 (foreman didn't seem to support it as last look)
• Bulk uploading client paramaters, rather than editing 1 field at a time for a new host, hostgroup, domain, etc.
• Alerting foreman that a host has completed provisioning when behind NAT

Organizational topics¶

• Git and Release maintenance
• Packaging
• Puppet-Foreman deployment recipes - Isolate namespace (as in : http://bit.ly/sFabPs) ? Or not ?
• Bug/Feature reviews

Dec 05 2011 : Report :¶

Mcollective¶

1. functionality exposed in UI :

• simple action : puppet kicks, services management
• handled by proxy
• optional

Pulp / Katello¶

• Relation with Foreman should be more precise
• Katello doesn't support non RPM disto
• Maybe we could try a simple repo management
• Functionnality wished :
  • Assigning repo to host
  • Pull updated
• Mainly UI work

BMC support¶

• Functionnality wished :
  • Power on/off
  • Boot order
• Should be handled by proxy using IPMI (freeIPMI ?)
• Look at otherproject : https://github.com/dellcloudedge/barclamp-ipmi

Remove virt dependency¶

• Can not talk to 'a cloud'
• Dividing system into :
  • Physical
  • Virtual
• Major code refactoring
• Remove dependency on a particular gem and have 3d party integration (libvirt, virt, fog, ec2, ovirt)

Password encrytion¶

• Use gpg encryption ? (maybe with hiera support)
• Store gpg encrypted sensitive information and decrypt it on the fly when used
• See http://rubygems.org/gems/attr_encrypted

db versionning¶

• Maybe use GIT as a versionning backend
• Use only db versionning system

Cloud unattended support¶

• proxy should handle unattended installation not foreman ?
• How to solve NAT problem
• Client should not talk to foreman during unattended installation
• We should track host deployed by foreman with an uuid

Audits to Hostgroups/Classes/Parameters/Provisioning should be displayed on the Dashboard¶

• How to track puppet manifest modification
• Store puppet manifest in a VCS

Redesign role management¶

• Creation of a role server
• Allow multiple hostgroup assignment to a signe host => to be discussed