Ian's FOSDEM and Config Management Trip

[Marek_Hulan]

@iballou

(since it was recorded, I’m considering adding a voice-over and posting it on the Foreman YouTube channel).

That would be wonderful! The other option would be to make it one of the use cases demo that we started with yesterday.

@iballou

If anyone has ideas for that, please let me know!

If you find solution for this, let me know too I think we may have the same need when we start working on the support for the new VMware API, there’s no Ruby SDK for this AFAIK. Google shows there are some libraries that could help. Other option is to shell out

@iballou

Speaking of ATIX, Bastian @bastian-src gave a talk showcasing a resource quota plugin that he is developing. The plugin allows admins to set quotas for things like CPU cores, RAM, and disk utilization for different users. There are still some things to be hashed out, like how to get disk usage reliably from different compute resources, but I thought the plugin looked really promising. Here is the source code: GitHub - ATIX-AG/foreman_resource_quota

@bastian-src once you have the plugin production ready, it would be great to show it on the community demo or standalone deepdive, there’s many people who couldn’t to to the cfgmgmt camp and who’d be interested, I believe

@iballou

Users are interested in seeing more diff information output from Ansible runs. One example is being able to see what changes were made to a file.

I was under the impression we had the diff capability in there. I know puppet can do it if show diff is enabled.

@iballou

One user wanted to be able to more easily recreate destroyed entities, like hosts.

This could probably be done with help of audits. The audit entry contains all attributes of the deleted record. We could feed it to the new host form. Similarly for other objects.