How deeply integrated is Foreman with Salt?

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Hi,

I'm looking at deploying either Salt or Puppet and Salt looks like it suits
our environment a little better. Unfortunately, it seems that Salt lacks a
robust web UI which is also important for my group as it's going to be
heavily used by ops (who aren't the most technical) and Foreman meets that
requirement.

So I was wondering how deeply integrated is Foreman with Salt? I saw a
recent post by Stephen Benjamin
(http://lanyrd.com/2015/cfgmgmtcamp/sdhgkx/) that says that there are
plugins that integrate the two but I wasn't sure if it was more a POC at
this point or something that's enables feature parity with Puppet. If
anyone has any insight or suggestions, I'd love to know!

Cheers!

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Hi Bryan,

You can get a good overview of the features in the wiki:
https://github.com/theforeman/foreman_salt/wiki - not sure what's
coming up or whether there's stuff not documented in there.

It's the 2nd most well integrated config management tool with Foreman,
although you'd still see traces of "Puppet" in the UI. We're working
towards giving you a cleaner view of things.

··· On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 11:43 PM, Bryan Arenal wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking at deploying either Salt or Puppet and Salt looks like it suits > our environment a little better. Unfortunately, it seems that Salt lacks a > robust web UI which is also important for my group as it's going to be > heavily used by ops (who aren't the most technical) and Foreman meets that > requirement. > > So I was wondering how deeply integrated is Foreman with Salt? I saw a > recent post by Stephen Benjamin (http://lanyrd.com/2015/cfgmgmtcamp/sdhgkx/) > that says that there are plugins that integrate the two but I wasn't sure if > it was more a POC at this point or something that's enables feature parity > with Puppet. If anyone has any insight or suggestions, I'd love to know! > > Cheers! > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Foreman users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to foreman-users+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to foreman-users@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/foreman-users. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

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> Hi,
>
> I'm looking at deploying either Salt or Puppet and Salt looks like it suits
> our environment a little better. Unfortunately, it seems that Salt lacks a
> robust web UI which is also important for my group as it's going to be
> heavily used by ops (who aren't the most technical) and Foreman meets that
> requirement.
>
> So I was wondering how deeply integrated is Foreman with Salt? I saw a
> recent post by Stephen Benjamin
> (Eventbrite - Discover the Best Local Events & Things to Do) that says that there are
> plugins that integrate the two but I wasn't sure if it was more a POC at
> this point or something that's enables feature parity with Puppet. If
> anyone has any insight or suggestions, I'd love to know!

It works, and there's a few people using it in production. It does what
it says on the tin:

Home · theforeman/foreman_salt Wiki · GitHub

I think it's somewhat close to features with Puppet, I'd reccomend just
giving it a try and seeing if it works for you. If you have some ideas
or feedback, it's very much welcome in the bug tracker or just find me
on IRC.

··· On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 02:43:14PM -0800, Bryan Arenal wrote:

Cheers!

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That's great, thanks for the replies, guys. Stupid question – you
need to install Puppet to install Foreman even if you're going to run
it with Salt, correct? Then just remove Puppet once the installation
is complete?

Thanks again!

··· On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 7:50 AM, Stephen Benjamin wrote: > On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 02:43:14PM -0800, Bryan Arenal wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm looking at deploying either Salt or Puppet and Salt looks like it suits >> our environment a little better. Unfortunately, it seems that Salt lacks a >> robust web UI which is also important for my group as it's going to be >> heavily used by ops (who aren't the most technical) and Foreman meets that >> requirement. >> >> So I was wondering how deeply integrated is Foreman with Salt? I saw a >> recent post by Stephen Benjamin >> (http://lanyrd.com/2015/cfgmgmtcamp/sdhgkx/) that says that there are >> plugins that integrate the two but I wasn't sure if it was more a POC at >> this point or something that's enables feature parity with Puppet. If >> anyone has any insight or suggestions, I'd love to know! > > It works, and there's a few people using it in production. It does what > it says on the tin: > > https://github.com/theforeman/foreman_salt/wiki > > I think it's somewhat close to features with Puppet, I'd reccomend just > giving it a try and seeing if it works for you. If you have some ideas > or feedback, it's very much welcome in the bug tracker or just find me > on IRC. > >> >> Cheers! >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Foreman users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to foreman-users+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to foreman-users@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/foreman-users. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Foreman users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to foreman-users+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to foreman-users@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/foreman-users. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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Well you can install Foreman by hand, foreman-installer (puppet-modules)
or using Salt itself.

If you're interested in the latter, you may want to take a look at
<https://github.com/bechtoldt/saltstack-foreman-formula&gt;.

Arnold

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Karlsruhe, Germany

Am 11.02.15 um 20:03 schrieb Bryan Arenal:

That’s great, thanks for the replies, guys. Stupid question – you
need to install Puppet to install Foreman even if you’re going to run
it with Salt, correct? Then just remove Puppet once the installation
is complete?

Thanks again!

On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 7:50 AM, Stephen Benjamin stephen@redhat.com wrote:

On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 02:43:14PM -0800, Bryan Arenal wrote:

Hi,

I’m looking at deploying either Salt or Puppet and Salt looks like it suits
our environment a little better. Unfortunately, it seems that Salt lacks a
robust web UI which is also important for my group as it’s going to be
heavily used by ops (who aren’t the most technical) and Foreman meets that
requirement.

So I was wondering how deeply integrated is Foreman with Salt? I saw a
recent post by Stephen Benjamin
(Eventbrite - Discover the Best Local Events & Things to Do) that says that there are
plugins that integrate the two but I wasn’t sure if it was more a POC at
this point or something that’s enables feature parity with Puppet. If
anyone has any insight or suggestions, I’d love to know!

It works, and there’s a few people using it in production. It does what
it says on the tin:

Home · theforeman/foreman_salt Wiki · GitHub

I think it’s somewhat close to features with Puppet, I’d reccomend just
giving it a try and seeing if it works for you. If you have some ideas
or feedback, it’s very much welcome in the bug tracker or just find me
on IRC.

Cheers!

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