Foreman (software)

Foreman

Foreman v1.2 Screenshot Hosts
Original author(s) Paul Kelly and Ohad Levy
Initial release 10 September 2009 (2009-09-10)[1]
Written in Ruby and JavaScript
Platform Cross-platform: Unix, Linux, Microsoft Windows, OS X
Available in English, French, German, Spanish
Type Systems management
License GPL
Website www.theforeman.org

Foreman (also known as The Foreman) is an open source complete life cycle systems management tool for provisioning, configuring and monitoring of physical and virtual servers. Foreman has deep integration to configuration management software, with Puppet, Chef, Salt and other solutions through plugins, which allows users to automate repetitive tasks, deploy applications, and manage change to deployed servers.

Foreman provides provisioning on bare-metal (through managed DHCP, DNS, TFTP, and PXE-based unattended installations), virtualization and cloud. Foreman provides comprehensive, auditable interaction facilities including a web frontend, a command line interface, and a robust REST API.

History

Initial development on Foreman started on July 2009 under a different project name. The initial release 0.1 was committed in September 2009[1] by Ohad Levy.

Availability

Foreman is targeted on Linux operating systems, but users reported successful installations on Microsoft Windows, BSD, and macOS.

The core Foreman team maintains repositories for various Linux distributions: Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (and derivatives such as CentOS), Debian, and Ubuntu.

Plugins

Foreman comes with freely available plugins to increase functionality. All plugins are available on github.

Release history

Date Version Changes and additions
October 14, 2013 1.3.0[2] Improvements were made in the installation process, API, scalability, existing hosts mapping to compute resources, and more. A new official CLI.
January 30, 2014 1.4.0[3] New compute profiles feature, improved plugin registration and web UI extensibility, Kerberos authentication support and new smart proxy features.
May 9, 2014 1.5.0[4] Config groups feature for Puppet management, integration with FreeIPA, improved authorization system and image provisioning on oVirt, libvirt and VMware ESX.
September 11, 2014 1.6.0[5] Plugin support for Foreman's Smart Proxy, new API version, support for LDAP or Kerberos groups.
December 2, 2014 1.7.0[6] New features for Foreman's smart class matchers supplying data to Puppet, more advanced networking support and a build health checker.
April 28, 2015 1.8.0[7] Networking user interface and improved provisioning support, new installer features and performance enhancements.
August 18, 2015 1.9.0[8] User interface enhancements, improved logging, image provisioning and e-mail notifications.
December 23, 2015 1.10.0[9] Various host management user interface enhancements, DNS plugin support in Foreman's Smart Proxy.
April 1, 2016 1.11.0[10] Parameter management improvements, new Smart Proxy user interfaces, DHCP plugin support in the Smart Proxy.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Initial tag in git".
  2. ↑ . Groups.google.com. Retrieved on 2013-10-14.
  3. ↑ . Groups.google.com. Retrieved on 2014-01-30.
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  5. ↑ . Groups.google.com. Retrieved on 2014-09-11.
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  7. ↑ . Groups.google.com. Retrieved on 2015-04-28.
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  10. ↑ . Groups.google.com. Retrieved on 2016-04-01.
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