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Hi Guys,

I'm new to foreman and puppet, I'm trying to set the 2 of them to manage my
infrastructure, any idea what's the best to do it, ie install the 2 on the
same box or have one in one box and the other on another server, etc?

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If you've not used it before, then please follow our quickstart
instructions for Foreman. It will set up both on the same server with
just a few commands.

Quickstart: Foreman :: Quickstart

If you're unfamiliar with it, then you'll probably have a bad experience
trying to set up a distributed setup at first as there are quite a few
moving pieces.

As you become more familiar you could look at separating the roles to
get better performance. This section of our documentation describes
installation of new masters with our installer:
http://theforeman.org/manuals/latest/index.html#3.2.2InstallerOptions

Depending on the number of hosts, performance of the server and
complexity of what you're doing, one host might be plenty for your
infrastructure. You'll find comments about performance in the mailing
list archives, I'm sure.

Cheers,

··· On 29/10/15 03:40, Jassem Aldulaimi wrote: > Hi Guys, > > I'm new to foreman and puppet, I'm trying to set the 2 of them to manage > my infrastructure, any idea what's the best to do it, ie install the 2 > on the same box or have one in one box and the other on another server, > etc?

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Dominic Cleal
dominic@cleal.org

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Hi Dominic,

I much appreciates your reply.

This is what I did; I installed puppet master on its own VM, tested
everything fine and did what I expected to do. Installed foreman on the
other VM, and it did what suppose to do, but from what I understand, by
running foreman-installer, it will install everything on that box including
puppet master, and it's not what I want. From what I read by running
foreman-installer --no-puppet, will install foreman with a puppet agent,
but wont install. Please note, I was installing foreman 1.9 on Ubuntu 14.04
(trusty), any idea why, is this not how you install it?

Now, the reason I want that way, it was purely I had puppet master does
what suppose to do, all I was after a reporting tools with GUI, and what
foreman meant to do I thought it's the perfect choice.

··· On Friday, October 30, 2015 at 12:55:10 AM UTC+11, Dominic Cleal wrote:

On 29/10/15 03:40, Jassem Aldulaimi wrote:

Hi Guys,

I’m new to foreman and puppet, I’m trying to set the 2 of them to manage
my infrastructure, any idea what’s the best to do it, ie install the 2
on the same box or have one in one box and the other on another server,
etc?

If you’ve not used it before, then please follow our quickstart
instructions for Foreman. It will set up both on the same server with
just a few commands.

Quickstart: Foreman :: Quickstart

If you’re unfamiliar with it, then you’ll probably have a bad experience
trying to set up a distributed setup at first as there are quite a few
moving pieces.

As you become more familiar you could look at separating the roles to
get better performance. This section of our documentation describes
installation of new masters with our installer:
Foreman :: Manual

Depending on the number of hosts, performance of the server and
complexity of what you’re doing, one host might be plenty for your
infrastructure. You’ll find comments about performance in the mailing
list archives, I’m sure.

Cheers,

–
Dominic Cleal
dom...@cleal.org <javascript:>