The right way to install tfm-rubygem-foreman_userdata on Ubuntu 18.04?

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  • Foreman version: 1.21.0
  • VMware vSphere verison: 6.7
  • Ubuntu version: 18.04 LTS

After struggling with trying to get Foreman to deploy systems based on VMware Templates (e.g. Foreman Images), I believe I need to install tfm-rubygem-foreman_userdata. What’s the right way to do this?

I’m familiar with https://theforeman.org/plugins/#2.Installation, but neither the Apt repo nor the foreman-installer seem to know about this package:

root@foreman:~# grep plugins /etc/apt/sources.list.d/foreman.list 
root@foreman:~# apt-cache search foreman |grep -i userdata
root@foreman:~# foreman-installer --help |grep plugin | grep userdata
root@foreman:~#
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I realize that this plugin is also available at https://github.com/theforeman/foreman_userdata. Are there instructions to install a plugin from Github?

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Solved at VMware Template Provisioning with Static IP

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A patch to our packaging repository would be highly appreciated. Plugins are async from the main releases so we can also introduce plugins to 1.21.0.

A patch to the puppet-foreman module’s plugins is needed for installer support. If there’s no config, the patch is rather trivial:

https://github.com/theforeman/puppet-foreman/commit/7cb0bba656a8c55839c56c22c29d445ddb7f303d#diff-d063b828cd9bf333ecb8c795589b1d08

To complete this, the installer’s answer files need to be aware of it. This isn’t very complicated.

https://github.com/theforeman/foreman-installer/commit/e0cde995c6da9b34118c6e5d488493d5848dce7e#diff-4c85d0b2ee9553118b215f5fff621dc9

There’s a helper to generate the migration. Note that for Foreman plugins it’s usually applicable to both the foreman and katello scenarios so there’s some duplication.

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