Hi all!
as you’ve probably noticed, we are working hard on making puppet optional and we’ve come long way.
TL;DR
- Foreman Puppet plugin has been released for testing
- We are looking for puppet plugin maintainers
The plugin, that will contain most of the puppet related funcionality is going to be pre-released with Foreman 2.4 version, so this funcionality will be deprecated 2.4 onwards and removed in 3.0, which will probably follow after 2.5.
I’d like to ask everyone who can help with testing to install the plugin in development and testing environments. It contains a lot of funcionality, so it is unlikely to be stable right away.
This effort has been done mostly by me as there were not a lot of resources to help me and I’m happy to announce that it is looking good and we’re on the right track to get it done.
Reasons for the extraction effort have been discussed elsewhere, so I’m not going to list them here, but one of them is that not all core maintainers and users see a value in having the Puppet as part of Foreman core anymore. I’m one of those who don’t see the value and think that it slows down a core developement.
I’ve tried my best to make the plugin as maintainable as possible and I will take it to a stable plugin with all the needed tooling and I’ll try to fix major bugs, but I’ll not be able to make any major changes and improvements as it will not be my priority maintaining the plugin.
I strongly believe in value of the plugin and I know there are people in community who want to see it maintained, but I’ll not be able to give it anough attention myself. Without the proper attention though the plugin will soon loose its value and that would be shame. If you are able to participate in maintaining the plugin in any way (documentation, RFCs and development) or know of someone who would be willing to do that, please contact me, I’ll help onboard anyone who asks and ease the entry barrier as much as possible.
Lets keep the Puppet integration with Foreman great together.
