Foreman Blog

Over the past few months, we’ve been working on a new way to deploy and manage Foreman and its components (like Katello, Candlepin, and Pulp) using containers. Today, we’re happy to share that foremanctl 1.0 has been tagged, marking our first milestone toward a fully containerized Foreman experience.

betadots GmbH joins the group of companies that provide professional services for Foreman!

We’re plannig to shutdown rsync.theforeman.org on 2024-06-03, if you’re using it to mirror our repositories, please switch to HTTP(S) based mirroring.

Foreman supports provisioning hosts running Debian and Ubuntu on VMware, Proxmox, cloud providers such as Microsoft Azure, and bare metal hosts. With the Katello plug-in, provisioned and registered hosts receive versioned DEB content based on their lifecycle. This blog article is a short summary of what happened behind the scenes to provisioning hosts running Ubuntu 20.04.3+, why you need new templates, and how to use the new deployment mechanism.

Today I was working on a potential fix for the issue that Puppetserver doesn’t start when deployed with fapolicyd in enforcing mode.

I knew that the potential fix is to set PrivateTmp=true in the systemd unit, so the patch was quickly written, but how would one verify it end to end?