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

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Simple automation with Ansible

News

Posts from our Blog

Config Management Camp Ghent 2019

by Afeef Ghannam | Feb 22, 2019 | Ansible, Automation, Foreman, NETWAYS, Puppet

Ich habe dieses Jahr die erste Gelegenheit bekommen, mich mit meinen Kollegen und meinem Chef am Configuration Management Camp im Ghent zwischen 4. und 6. Februar zu beteiligen. Wir sind am 3. Februar am Abend in Ghent angekommen und durch die Stadt spazieren...

Monthly Snap June

by Julia Hornung | Jun 30, 2018 | English, Events, Foreman, GitLab, Icinga, OSBC, OSCAMP, OSDC, OSMC

June kept everyone busy with and excited about the Open Source Data Conference in Berlin. Eleven days before OSDC Keya started the „OSDC 2018 Countdown“. Second week of June the NETWAYS headquarter in Nuremberg was quite quiet. Everyone flew off to Berlin. Everyone?...