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-Integr...
http://etherpad-aeolusproject.rhcloud.com/p/Katello-Foreman-Aeolus-Integr...
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