Katello-Foreman-Aeolus Integration

Ohad Levy ohadlevy at redhat.com
Wed Jun 27 06:18:22 UTC 2012


On 06/26/2012 10:11 PM, Chris Alfonso wrote:
> There has been a bit of discussion going on around how we might go about
> using foreman's ability to do host provisioning with aeolus and katello.
> I've published some of the notes from the discussions here:
> http://etherpad-aeolusproject.rhcloud.com/p/Katello-Foreman-Aeolus-Integration-Summary
>
> http://etherpad-aeolusproject.rhcloud.com/p/Katello-Foreman-Aeolus-Integration
>
>
> The suggested end goal of this integration is:
> 1) Allow Katello to clone content, create a snapshot of the content
> (Content View).
> 2) Generate the data needed for an Oz template and store it with the
> Foreman HostGroups.
> 3) Allow Aeolus to provision guests *and* be able to use the Foreman
> capabilities around post-boot configuration.
>
> If there are additional goals to this integration that I've overlooked
> and you know about them, please respond with your intel. Take a look at
> the use cases, and feel free to annotate or reply to this thread.

One major difference, is the ability to manage the system in the long 
term as well, so its not really just about launching it, rather managing 
its configuration for the whole system life cycle.

other side benefits, is to manage stuff you need in your enterprise but 
dont need on a common cloud, things like ip address management, dns, 
dhcp, automation of puppet certificates, status reporting,inventory 
auditing etc.

Ohad




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