Hi,
we are currently testing "The Foreman". We do use chef-solo and we don't
want to switch to puppet. Is it possible to use MCollective and Chef-Solo
with "The Foreman" on our clients to get Reports and Audits? What will we
"loose" if we do not use Puppet on our clients?
Regards,
Flo
Hello,
I can answer the chef part of your questions.
you should be able to upload reports and facts (base of audits) from chef-
solo. I don't know anyone who've tried that from chef-solo but there are
success stories uploading reports and facts from usual chef-clients to
Foreman.
You'll need to install chef plugin to your foreman installation [1] and use
chef handlers in chef solo [2]. I'm not sure whether and how chef-solo handles
handlers though. You can find some more information about chef integration on
our wiki [3]. Also I'd recommend watching FOSDEM presentation about this topic
[4].
Currently this is the only chef integration we have. Using puppet would allow
you something that chef-server does for chef-clients. Plus other smaller
things like triggering puppet runs… But since you don't seem to use chef-
server you won't miss much.
MCollective support was worked on recently and you can watch some demos at [5]
If you try chef-solo and Foreman, I'll be happy to hear the results.
[1] https://github.com/theforeman/foreman_chef
[2] https://github.com/theforeman/chef-handler-foreman
[3] Chef-support - Foreman
[4]
http://video.fosdem.org/2014/H1309_Van_Rijn/Saturday/Foreman_integration_with_Chef_and_others.webm
[5] Foreman :: Media
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Marek