Thank you, Ohad. This is the sort of info I am looking for. “Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.” Bill Waterson (Calvin & Hobbes)
----- Ohad Levy <ohadl...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 6:26 PM, Dan White <y...@comcast.net> wrote: > > > This tells me RedHat picked Foreman over Cobbler. It does not tell me WHY. > > > > Their reasons may not apply to my situation. > > > > I am not trying to be difficult, but I find that I cannot accept an opinion > > on a technical issue without technical information to back it up. Also, > > this is for my job, so I need to be able to justify my decision with more > > than "The folks on the puppet mailing list told me to do it this way". > > > > I think I can try to break it down in different ways. > > First, Foreman was created after realizing that Just pxe booting, or just > using puppet, does not cover everything. > With the notion of self service (e.g. people who don't know how to use > puppet and or lack access to your manifests) foreman was aiming to bridge > that gap. > > Therefore, it was designed as a web service from day one, taking into > account multiple users, permissions, different views etc etc. > > Another goal, was that you wont need to open 5 different consoles in order > to provision a host, that eventually lead to integrating: dns, dhcp, tftp, > puppetca, virtual machine creation, puppet class > assignments, hierarchical variables support, audit log etc all in one place. > > Foreman users have come up with interesting usages cases, > from using it purely for monitoring puppet to ramp up whole datacenters. > its API is used today to feed external monitoring services, provision hosts, > update on the fly many hosts, and there is even a mobile app who utilize > foreman. > > Foreman is also not restricted to a specific subnet, datacenter etc, rather > is supposed to work across network segments and different backend software > (e.g. ms dns server, isc dhcp server etc) using its smart > proxy architecture. > > My hope, is that by using Foreman, you can provide your users much better > service, taking you out of the deployment loop, e.g. You users can consume > your services, without you being actively part of it. > > I obviously didnt cover every single aspect of foreman, but I hope it gives > you some useful information, if not, simply ask, or join our mailing list or > irc room (#theforeman) to ask more questions. > > Ohad > > > > “Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere > > in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.” > > Bill Waterson (Calvin & Hobbes) > > > > ----- Brian <b...@uga.edu> wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Jul 7, 2:47 pm, Dan White <y...@comcast.net> wrote: > > > > In "Pro Linux System Administration" Mr. Turnbull discusses Cobbler and > > Puppet > > > > In "Pro Puppet" he discusses Foreman and Puppet. > > > > > > > > Would anyone out there be willing and able to talk about the > > differences between Cobbler and Foreman as they relate to Puppet and what > > factors I should consider in choosing one of them ? > > > > > > Red Hat is using Foreman in CloudForms System Engine, their successor > > > to Satellite. I'd take this as a strong vote of confidence in Foreman. > > > > > > https://www.redhat.com/archives/spacewalk-list/2011-July/msg00019.html > > > > > > All the best, > > > Brian > > > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Puppet Users" group. > > > To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > > > > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Puppet Users" group. > > To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
