Roles and Profiles with Foreman

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Hello all,

I'm struggling to work out the best way to implement roles and profiles
with Foreman + smart parameters (or something which achieves the same
goal). Has anyone worked this out yet?

Thanks!

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I'm playing with assigning hosts to host groups and structuring the house groups like the roles in my roles module. In site.pp I say:

include join(split($::hostgroup,'/'),'::')

That also allows you to use

  • %{::hostgroup}

In your hiera hierarchy.

Anyone see any pitfalls?

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Well, I really want to use Foreman to hold the data. My team finds it very
convenient, and it's very clear what each host is getting. With hiera, it
can sometimes be a bit of a problem with multiple levels of hierarchy. I
was looking at foreman-hiera, but apparently it doesn't work with api v2. I
also looked at the foreman_data_binding/foreman_param_lookup combo, but I
can't get it to work on my system. I installed foreman_param_lookup in my
foreman installation, but it won't list itself as a plugin. I install and
configure foreman_data_binding in puppet as well. The error I receive when
attempting a puppet run is: Error: Could not retrieve catalog from remote
server: Error 400 on SERVER: Could not autoload
puppet/indirector/data_binding/foreman: cannot load such file –
puppet/indirector/foreman

Does anyone know if there are any version incompatibilities with
foreman_data_binding/foreman_param_lookup? I'm currently on puppet 3.2.3
and foreman 1.5.2.

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> Well, I really want to use Foreman to hold the data. My team finds it
> very convenient, and it's very clear what each host is getting. With
> hiera, it can sometimes be a bit of a problem with multiple levels of
> hierarchy. I was looking at foreman-hiera, but apparently it doesn't
> work with api v2. I also looked at the
> foreman_data_binding/foreman_param_lookup combo, but I can't get it to
> work on my system. I installed foreman_param_lookup in my foreman
> installation, but it won't list itself as a plugin.

Yeah, it pre-dates this registration mechanism. Hopefully it's loaded
though.

> I install and
> configure foreman_data_binding in puppet as well. The error I receive
> when attempting a puppet run is: Error: Could not retrieve catalog from
> remote server: Error 400 on SERVER: Could not autoload
> puppet/indirector/data_binding/foreman: cannot load such file –
> puppet/indirector/foreman

You might want to try running the puppet agent on the master so the
data binding files are pluginsync'd to /var/lib/puppet/lib and then
restart the Puppet master. Automatically loading these files is a bit
unreliable.

> Does anyone know if there are any version incompatibilities with
> foreman_data_binding/foreman_param_lookup? I'm currently on puppet 3.2.3
> and foreman 1.5.2.

Hopefully it still works, but I've not worked on it for quite a long time.

··· On 20/10/14 18:38, Alyssa wrote:

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Dominic Cleal
Red Hat Engineering