Are there any recommended methods of migrating from an existing Foreman
only install, to a fresh Foreman+Katello installation? The puppet modules
and existing puppet certificates should be easy enough to copy over, but
what about my templates/hosts/host groups etc? Any way I can dump this data
and import it into the new host?
Same boat here. Seems to be a lack of docs on that for some reason…
Pretty excited to get that integration going! Both projects have come so
far!!
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On Friday, October 14, 2016 at 5:36:35 PM UTC-4, steved0ca wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> It looks like it is not possible to add Katello to an existing Foreman
> installation. http://projects.theforeman.org/issues/7605
>
> Are there any recommended methods of migrating from an existing Foreman
> only install, to a fresh Foreman+Katello installation? The puppet modules
> and existing puppet certificates should be easy enough to copy over, but
> what about my templates/hosts/host groups etc? Any way I can dump this data
> and import it into the new host?
>
> Thanks,
> Steve
>
>
>
There's a few things you can try - if you want to play with these, start
with a sandbox you can break
For any Foreman objects, like Hostgroups, you can probably do something
with hammer-csv (https://github.com/Katello/hammer-cli-csv) to dump objects
from one host and import them to another. Assuming you have both Foreman
instances set up to handle orchestration to the same proxies, I think
that'll work for DNS/DHCP etc
For classes assigned to Hosts only there's also an ENC importer. To be
honest, hammer-csv is probably better, as this rake task flattens the
hostgroup structure, but as an alternative, look at "foreman-rake -T | grep
puppet:import"
For templates, there's no good way to get them out (except maybe
hammer-csv again) as they're stored in the db - but for managing them in
general, you could look to the foreman_templates plugin ( https://github.com/theforeman/foreman_templates) which enables you to use a
git repo as a source of templates. It's a one-way sync though, so you'll
have to populate the repo first.
Hope that helps - do let us know how you get on!
Greg
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On 18 October 2016 at 04:28, Austin Smith wrote:
On Friday, October 14, 2016 at 5:36:35 PM UTC-4, steved0ca wrote:
Are there any recommended methods of migrating from an existing Foreman
only install, to a fresh Foreman+Katello installation? The puppet modules
and existing puppet certificates should be easy enough to copy over, but
what about my templates/hosts/host groups etc? Any way I can dump this data
and import it into the new host?
