Foreman Blog

Foreman Community Newsletter - December 2015

Foreman 1.10 and Katello 2.4 coming soon, Developer Handbook published, High Availability and Windows Imaging deep dives

Journey to High Availability

This is a recount of the road from an all in one Foreman implementation to a full HA deployment. We will also be looking forward beyond our current implementation to future plans.

Tackling review culture

Over the last few years, the Foreman Developer community has repeatedly hit issues with mounting PR queues. I'm going to share my thoughts on how we're going to take some positive action on it this time...

Image based deployment via dd and nbd

Having capable live distribution on discovered nodes means we can do interesting things with them. Image-based deployment looks like a very easy thing to implement. Roll a classroom of workstation in few minutes!

Booting Discovery over HTTP

PXE protocol is slow on high-latency networks. But there is a way out! To minimize the init RAM disk and to boot the squashed file system over http. In this article, we will take a look on this approach.

Foreman 3.16.0 has been released! Follow the quick start to install it.

Foreman 3.15.0 has been released! Follow the quick start to install it.