Image Builder with Foreman and AWS/Azure/GCP

[ThatGuy24601]

I was reading through the Provisioning Guide

I was looking at the “8. Using a Lorax Composer Image for Provisioning” section. It says: “You can use this image for bare metal provisioning and provisioning using a compute resource”

Is it possible to use this method with the AWS, Azure, and GCP compute resources?

[Marek_Hulan]

see if these posts help in any way

Using Image Composer (Image builder) with Foreman

Hello, Foreman does ship with an parameters which use “liveimg” kickstart statement to install OS from an existing image. This is used for Red Hat Virtualization node (or oVirt Hypervisor), but it is great workflow that can be used to provision generic nodes too. While we would like to focus on this sometimes in the future, there are few workarounds you need to do if you want to explore this kind of provisioning. Terry from the RHEL team shared with me those workarounds, so I thought it would …

Building Images & Deploying With Foreman

One interesting feature of the Anaconda installer is the ability to apply a “traditional” disk image, rather than install packages. In other words, instead of Anaconda installing packages from repositories, it will fetch a disk image over HTTP and write it to the disk. I recently decided to give this a shot out of curiosity and I have been very impressed with how easily this process can be handled with Foreman. There already exists great documentation on how this all works, but I thought the c…

[lzap]

Well foreman plugins do not support uploading of images, they are simple “launchers”. You can, however, build your images on the foreman server (using lorax, composer, what have you) and then upload them into your account, then use them. But you need to write your own scripts for that and run them manually (e.g. every night from cron etc).