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

Foreman’s 12 birthday – we will have a virtual party

by Dirk Götz | May 7, 2021 | Foreman

Beginning with Foreman's 7th birthday in the year 2016 we are organizing an annual party to celebrate with the awesome community. As we partnered up with ATIX for organizing this event, it was their turn last year and with Covid19 they had the additional challenge to...

Config Management Camp Ghent 2020 – Recap

by Dirk Götz | Feb 21, 2020 | Ansible, Events, Foreman

It seams like Config Management Camp at beginning of February in Ghent gets a fixed date for me. I attended the fifth year in series, gave a talk in the last three and joined the Foreman Construction day on the day after as many times. So why am I still attending...