Problem:
Hi,
There is no full and clean uninstall process for remove entirely foreman and components
Regards
Expected outcome:
Foreman and Proxy versions:
Foreman and Proxy plugin versions:
Distribution and version:
Other relevant data:
My understanding is that the installation guide assumes Foreman will be the only service running on the host you’ve selected to install Foreman on. This means that you can simply destroy the VM/format the bare metal host (and potentially start over) if you decide to stop using Foreman.
If you want to reinstall Foreman after a botched/misconfigured installation, it’s also probably best to start with a clean/fresh OS once again.
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Hi,
Thank you for your reply.
If you want to reinstall Foreman after a botched/misconfigured installation, it’s also probably best to start with a clean/fresh OS once again.
It’s the problem. In professional environment, if you don’t have access to hypervisor or bare metal you cannot wait for a “new vm”.
After a dirty installation it will be very awesome to have a process to clean foreman installation and it’s components.
The “fire&forget” method is not a solution in professional environment
regards
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If you need to rerun the installation your best bet is probably just to fix whatever issue caused your installation to fail, and then simply rerun the installation. In general the installation is pretty aggressive about “correcting” whatever was there from any possible previous installation attempts.
As @quba42 said, the installer will ensure the components in a certain state. The installer does not manage the data so there is a --reset-data flag (used to be --reset I think, check your version) to remove data from databases.
I don’t really see a benefit in some cleanup script that removes all of the components. There are too many edge cases IMHO.
Hi,
Thank you for your reply, I understand why a cleanup script don’t really gives a benefit. AS @quba42 said, the installation is “pretty agressive”.
I would understand each technical installed stack to correct some dazed and confused state.
When foreman is deployed we have :
- foreman
- puppet
- postgresql
- redis
- webrick
- openjdk
- dynflow sidekick
- other things ?
Is there a documentation who list every stack installed ?
Thank you
Regards
Running foreman-maintain service list on your installation will give you a pretty good idea of what background services are part of your foreman installation.
Example:
# foreman-maintain service list
Running Service List
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List applicable services:
foreman-proxy.service enabled
foreman.service enabled
httpd.service enabled
postgresql.service enabled
pulp_celerybeat.service enabled
pulp_resource_manager.service enabled
pulp_streamer.service enabled
pulp_workers.service enabled
puppetserver.service enabled
qdrouterd.service enabled
qpidd.service enabled
rh-mongodb34-mongod.service enabled
rh-redis5-redis.service enabled
smart_proxy_dynflow_core.service enabled
squid.service enabled
tomcat.service enabled
All services listed [OK]
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Thank you for this usefull tips !
I forgot to specify my distribution, i run with Ubuntu and the foreman-maintain package for Ubuntu is not ready : Is foreman-maintain supported on Ubuntu? - #8 by Lud97x
If you can read Ruby, the following might be helpful.
It’s not entirely what you’re looking for, but that lists the possible services. Some of those are irrelevant since they’re Katello-only.
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Hi,
Thank you for your help it is very usefull !
regards
Thank you!
I had a error on a new installation that corrupted the database with the following error:
PG::UndefinedColumn: ERROR: column settings.category does not exist
LINE 1: SELECT “settings”.* FROM “settings” WHERE “settings”."catego…
Rerunning the installer would not fix it. Even disabling the component did not help in this case. the
–reset-data
tag helped, cleaned the db and reinstalled foreman.