Foreman is a provisioning and complete life cycle management orchestration tool for managing infratructure from a graphical interface and also from command line tool hammer-cli.
With computing resources in foreman supports managing different type of hosts like vmware, aws , baremetal , kvm , docker etc.. to name a few
Under the hood foreman uses DHCP , TFP , PXE which are part of foreman-proxy a component used to provision the choice of operating system to the hosts , the advantages of foreman it has puppet built in that can be used to provisioned hosts to manage via puppet for any configuration management after installation.
Installing foreman on centos 7.
Before we begin with the install make sure hostname is set to unique other than localhost.localdoamin
#hostnamectl set-hostname cipher.sand.box
Add the required repos for foreman
#rpm -ivh https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
#rpm -ivh http://yum.puppetlabs.com/puppetlabs-release-el-7.noarch.rpm
#rpm -ivh http://yum.theforeman.org/releases/1.9/el7/x86_64/foreman-release.rpm
#yum install foreman-installer To enable foreman-proxy execute the below command #foreman-installer --enable-foreman-proxy
Adding firewall rules to allow foreman services
#firewall-cmd --permanent --add-port=53/tcp #firewall-cmd --permanent --add-port=67-69/tcp #firewall-cmd --permanent --add-port=80/tcp #firewall-cmd --permanent --add-port=443/tcp #firewall-cmd --permanent --add-port=3000/tcp #firewall-cmd --permanent --add-port=3306/tcp #firewall-cmd --permanent --add-port=5910-5930/tcp #firewall-cmd --permanent --add-port=5432/tcp #firewall-cmd --permanent --add-port=8140/tcp #firewall-cmd --permanent --add-port=8443/tcp #firewall-cmd --reload
After the settings foreman can be accessed from https://ip.ip.ip.ip or
https://server.sand.box hostname.