Foremanctl 1.0, Feedback and Discussion

akumari · October 14, 2025, 7:00am

As announced in the foremanctl 1.0 blog post, this thread is for collecting feedback and discussion around the first milestone release of foremanctl.

Please use this space to share your experiences, testing results, and suggestions as you try out the containerized Foreman setup.

A few helpful links:

We’d love to hear what worked for you, what didn’t, and what could be improved as we continue building toward Milestone 2.

akumari · October 24, 2025, 7:37am

Update: The blog post is now live! You can read the full announcement here:

https://theforeman.org/2025/10/foremanctl-10-deploying-foreman-in-containers-reaches-first-milestone.html

Alexey · January 28, 2026, 9:46pm

Tell me, when performing the Foreman role, there is a variable - obsah_state_path

TASK [foreman : Deploy Foreman Container]
[ERROR]: Task failed: Finalization of task args for ‘containers.podman.podman_container’ failed: Error while resolving value for ‘env’: ‘obsah_state_path’ is undefined

evgeni · January 29, 2026, 6:49am

That’s where foremanctl instructs Ansible to store some persistent files.

github.com/theforeman/foremanctl

foremanctl

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          #!/bin/bash
          
          OBSAH_NAME=foremanctl
          OBSAH_BASE=$(dirname $(readlink -f $0))
          OBSAH_DATA=${OBSAH_BASE}/src
          OBSAH_INVENTORY=${OBSAH_BASE}/inventories
          OBSAH_STATE=${OBSAH_BASE}/.var/lib/foremanctl
          OBSAH_PERSIST_PARAMS=true
          export OBSAH_NAME OBSAH_DATA OBSAH_INVENTORY OBSAH_STATE OBSAH_PERSIST_PARAMS
          
          ANSIBLE_LOG_PATH=${OBSAH_BASE}/.var/lib/foremanctl/foremanctl.log
          ANSIBLE_COLLECTIONS_PATH=${OBSAH_BASE}/build/collections/foremanctl
          ANSIBLE_COLLECTIONS_SCAN_SYS_PATH=false
          export ANSIBLE_LOG_PATH ANSIBLE_COLLECTIONS_PATH ANSIBLE_COLLECTIONS_SCAN_SYS_PATH
          
          exec obsah "$@"

github.com/theforeman/obsah

obsah/init.py

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          # Expose the obsah_state_path variable to roles and playbooks
          variables['obsah_state_path'] = args.playbook.application_config.state_path()

We probably should provide a default value so the playbooks are usable without foremanctl, but right now we don’t test that.