Best practice and detailed workflow for configuring foreman and smart proxy (DNS,DHCP, TFTP...)

Lyretta · October 19, 2023, 1:33pm

Dear guys,
thank you for your time in advance. I’m quite new in the IT development world and I need to install and configure Foreman (v. 3.7, PUPPET 7.26) on a Debian 11 server for a huge infrastructure.
I really really need a detailed guide (apart from the original Manual) to understand how to start configuring all the service which are mandatory to make The Foreman works properly.
Could you please point me something useful?

Thank you again
Giorgia

maximilian · October 19, 2023, 3:11pm

Hi @Lyretta

as of right now, the Foreman documentation is mostly aimed at running Foreman+Katello on EL. Guides to run Foreman without Katello plug-in on Debian/Ubuntu are not ready yet and contain some inaccuracies. However, they are still published for “nightly” and you can give them a try if you adjust some commands here and there:

Installing Foreman Server nightly on Debian/Ubuntu (for nightly because we are not yet confident that it works 100%)
Installing a Smart Proxy Server nightly on Debian/Ubuntu (currently empty because the guide is clearly broken)
Installing Foreman Server with Katello 4.9 Plugin on CentOS/RHEL (on EL for 3.7)
Installing a Smart Proxy Server 3.7 on CentOS/RHEL (on EL for 3.7)

Regards
Maximilian.

Lyretta · October 23, 2023, 8:58am

Hi @maximilian, thank you so much for your suggestion. I will take a look at them.
Regards
Giorgia

swabner · February 26, 2024, 3:23pm

Hi Giorgia,
I’m curious if you have been able to get everything up and running,… I’ve got an installation that uses puppet and does what is needed, but I still get tons of strange errors when I try to configure remote execution and stuff like this,…
Cheers
Sandro
PS: …on Debian 11, on RHEL 8 it seems to be smoother,…