Three and a half years ago I started a pet project, hammer-cli-csv[1], to export Foreman resources in CSV format with enough detail to be able to later reimport that data for an exact clone. Although I envisioned broader customer usage, it was mainly useful for devs that would often tear down and spin up a new server. With CSV I could repopulate nearly all details of the orgs, locs, settings, puppet classes, lifecycle environments, hosts, host groups, etc.[2] Over time, certain resource types were incorporated into Satellite-6 customer flows, specifically manipulating subscriptions on content hosts[3]. Some addition aspects that may be interesting listed below. Many of these are partially complete but worked well enough for my own usage. As they say, "Pull-requests welcome!"
+ Originally designed to do multi-threaded import (added to expose problems with server stress) + Allows custom columns to be defined and exported (custom reports) + Allows a subset of columns to be exported (custom reports) + Able to take yaml input instead of csv (useful for repopulating with ansible playbook via forklift) + Import of Sat-5 export CSV + Server plugin for hosts to speed up import by a factor of ten Over the past year other devs have worked on related features in Foreman. These include rake scripts for export (very fast compared to API that hammer csv has to use), export button on tables in UI (very convenient and accessible compared to CLI), and more. Unfortunately all of the work combined is not compatible. For example, exported CSV from a table can't then be imported with hammer csv. The question I have is, should additional dev effort be put into hammer csv? Is the concept important? Could it be used for custom report generation or inter-server sync (ISS)? Do we want a coherent vision and strategy or is it alright to continue with point solutions? [1] https://github.com/Katello/hammer-cli-csv [2] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1brcqqUpfdoWCLDHkQc6f-AX-c93mwaqm7qUgzKfuvBM/edit?usp=sharing [3] https://access.redhat.com/blogs/1169563/posts/2632781 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Foreman users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/foreman-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
