Example of creating hosts via puppet

dcaunt · April 27, 2023, 2:59pm

Problem:
I would like to add hosts to our Foreman installation programmatically via puppet. Should I be using this:

theforeman/puppet-foreman/blob/master/lib/puppet/type/foreman_host.rb

require_relative '../../puppet_x/foreman/common'

Puppet::Type.newtype(:foreman_host) do
  desc 'foreman_host creates a host in foreman.'

  instance_eval(&PuppetX::Foreman::Common::REST_API_COMMON_PARAMS)
  instance_eval(&PuppetX::Foreman::Common::FOREMAN_HOST_PARAMS)

  newparam(:facts) do
    desc 'Hash of facts about the host'

    defaultto { $facts }
  end
end

If so, does anyone have an example of using it? For instance, what would the $facts hash need to include?

Expected outcome:

Foreman and Proxy versions:
Foreman 3.5.2
Foreman proxy 3.5.2

Foreman and Proxy plugin versions:
foreman_bootdisk 21.0.3
foreman_discovery 22.0.2
foreman_expire_hosts 8.1.0

Distribution and version:
Rocky 8.7

Other relevant data:

dcaunt · April 27, 2023, 3:02pm

Sorry if I wasn’t clear in my initial post - the hosts I am trying to add to Foreman are hosts that will be built by Foreman (not hosts that will be part of the Foreman service). Thanks.