Hello.
Did someone has already upgraded his/her foreman installation with an in place upgrade of puppet 5 to 6 ?
We have foreman installed on a vm and I’m thinking about doing an inplace upgrade to puppet 6 because foreman seems to fully support it.
But i’m not sure about the upgrade procedure /path I need to follow.
If someone has encountered the situation, i’m willing to received any help 
Regards
Hécate
Hi,
I have just recently done that migration on Foreman 1.22. The steps are quite simple:
Repeat that for each Puppet Smart-Proxy server you might have and the upgrade the agent packages on your node.
A note on one problem I encountered: If you are using PuppetDB, you will have to update /etc/puppetlabs/puppetdb/conf.d/jetty.ini. There is a new config parameter named cipher-suites that needs to be set accordingly with the new config file (rpmnew file with rpm packages), otherwise puppetserver might not be able to talk to PuppetDB anymore.
Regards
I don’t have any puppetdb directory
vim /etc/puppetlabs/
code/ mcollective/ puppet/ puppetserver/ pxp-agent/
I only have :
locate puppetdb
/usr/share/foreman-installer/modules/puppetdb
/usr/share/foreman-installer/modules/foreman/manifests/plugin/puppetdb
/usr/share/foreman-installer/modules/foreman/manifests/plugin/puppetdb.pp
/usr/share/foreman-installer/modules/foreman/manifests/plugin/puppetdb/params.pp
/usr/share/foreman-installer/modules/puppetdb/CHANGELOG.md
/usr/share/foreman-installer/modules/puppetdb/LICENSE
/usr/share/foreman-installer/modules/puppetdb/NOTICE
/usr/share/foreman-installer/modules/puppetdb/README.md
/usr/share/foreman-installer/modules/puppetdb/checksums.json
/usr/share/foreman-installer/modules/puppetdb/lib
/usr/share/foreman-installer/modules/puppetdb/manifests
…
/usr/share/foreman-installer/modules/puppetdb/templates/routes.yaml.erb
/usr/share/foreman-installer/modules/puppetdb/types/ttl.pp
So maybe i’m not using it ?
In that case, you obviously don’t use it 
It is not part of the default Foreman setup, just wanted to let you know just in case.
So you should be fine with just updating the packages and running foreman-installer again.
Woops:
Dependencies Resolved
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Package Arch Version Repository Size
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Updating:
ansible noarch 2.8.5-1.el7 epel 15 M
puppet-agent x86_64 6.10.1-1.el7 puppet6 22 M
puppetserver noarch 6.7.1-1.el7 puppet6 59 M
python36-pyvmomi noarch 6.7.3-2.el7 epel 427 k
Transaction Summary
================================================================================================================================================================================================================
Upgrade 4 Packages
Total download size: 96 M
Is this ok [y/d/N]: y
Downloading packages:
No Presto metadata available for epel
No Presto metadata available for puppet6
(1/4): python36-pyvmomi-6.7.3-2.el7.noarch.rpm | 427 kB 00:00:00
(2/4): ansible-2.8.5-1.el7.noarch.rpm | 15 MB 00:00:01
(3/4): puppet-agent-6.10.1-1.el7.x86_64.rpm | 22 MB 00:00:03
(4/4): puppetserver-6.7.1-1.el7.noarch.rpm | 59 MB 00:00:20
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total 4.7 MB/s | 96 MB 00:00:20
Running transaction check
...
[/etc/yum.repos.d] 12:08:30# foreman-installer --foreman-configure-epel-repo=false --foreman-configure-scl-repo=false --enable-foreman-plugin-ansible --enable-foreman-proxy-plugin-ansible --enable-foreman-plugin-remote-execution --enable-foreman-proxy-plugin-remote-execution-ssh --enable-foreman-plugin-discovery
Could not find a suitable provider for foreman_smartproxy
Preparing installation Done
Something went wrong! Check the log for ERROR-level output
AFTER doing this:
yum reinstall puppet-agent-oauth
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package puppet-agent-oauth.noarch 0:0.5.1-3.el7 will be reinstalled
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Dependencies Resolved
================================================================================================================================================================================================================
Package Arch Version Repository Size
================================================================================================================================================================================================================
Reinstalling:
puppet-agent-oauth noarch 0.5.1-3.el7 foreman 45 k
Transaction Summary
================================================================================================================================================================================================================
Reinstall 1 Package
Total download size: 45 k
Installed size: 42 k
Is this ok [y/d/N]: y
systemctl restart puppetserver.service
systemctl restart puppet.service
everything went fine:
foreman-installer --foreman-configure-epel-repo=false --foreman-configure-scl-repo=false --enable-foreman-plugin-ansible --enable-foreman-proxy-plugin-ansible --enable-foreman-plugin-remote-execution --enable-foreman-proxy-plugin-remote-execution-ssh --enable-foreman-plugin-discovery
Preparing installation Done
Success!
* Foreman is running at https://vp-mut-dep-902.adm.gnp.les800
Initial credentials are admin / ndm2JdyRKsVFrTfZ
* Foreman Proxy is running at https://vp-mut-dep-902.adm.gnp.les800:8443
* Puppetmaster is running at port 8140
The full log is at /var/log/foreman-installer/foreman.logDid also this update and went well so far.
But one big problem now: If a new clients connects and want join the puppet server it appears in certificates as valid (Autosign) but is not added to the hosts overview.
Already tried reboot and foreman-installer, but did not change anything
Any idea someone?
Thanks
Rene