Foreman

Open Source Lifecycle Management

Foreman ist the lifecycle management tool for physical and virtual servers. The Foreman is an open source project that helps administrators manage their systems throughout the lifecycle, from provisioning and configuration to orchestration and monitoring.

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Automatisierung

Using Puppet, Ansible or Chef and the Foreman Smart Proxy architecture, regular tasks can be automated and applications rolled out at the touch of a button.

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Integration

Foreman offers a web frontend, a CLI and a RESTful API. In addition, a large number of plugins are available to customize Foreman to individual needs.

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Dashboard

Foreman is the perfect frontend for the open source variants of Puppet and Ansible. Be it controlling your own server virtualization or analyzing the configuration management.

Features

Adapts to your needs

With Foreman, applications can be deployed quickly and changes proactively managed. Both on-premise with VMs and bare-metal systems as well as in the cloud. Foreman scales well across multiple locations (offices, data centers, etc.) and multiple organizations.

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Provisioning

Provide complete systems from the ground up – controlled by an interface for both bare metal systems and private and public cloud systems.

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Configuration Management

A complete solution for configuration management – as a Puppet ENC with built-in parameterizable class support and a hierarchical parameter store.

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Monitoring

Inventory and Activity Monitoring of Puppet, Ansible and Chef Reports and Facts – including all configuration states and trends.

Integration

Foreman with Puppet or Ansible

Softwaremanagement and -discovery

Simple automation with Ansible

News

Posts from our Blog

Open Source Camp on Foreman

by Alexander Stoll | Nov 7, 2019 | English, Foreman, NETWAYS, OSCAMP

Like every year there was an Open Source Camp following the OSMC and as usual we helped organize that. Just in case you aren’t aware of what an Open Source Camp is here is the just of it: It’s meant to be an offer for Open Source projects to present themselves more in...

Give your Foreman a greater toolbox

by Julia Hornung | Oct 22, 2019 | Automation, Foreman, OSCAMP

Like every Foreman our well-beloved lifecycle management is only as good as its tools, says Dirk Götz, Foreman expert from NETWAYS. At OSCamp Dirk will showcase some plugins and explain their use case before giving some hints on plugin development. DevOps with Foreman...