On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 6:26 PM, Dan White <[email protected]> wrote: > This tells me RedHat picked Foreman over Cobbler. It does not tell me WHY. > > Their reasons may not apply to my situation. > > I am not trying to be difficult, but I find that I cannot accept an opinion > on a technical issue without technical information to back it up. Also, > this is for my job, so I need to be able to justify my decision with more > than "The folks on the puppet mailing list told me to do it this way". >
I think I can try to break it down in different ways. First, Foreman was created after realizing that Just pxe booting, or just using puppet, does not cover everything. With the notion of self service (e.g. people who don't know how to use puppet and or lack access to your manifests) foreman was aiming to bridge that gap. Therefore, it was designed as a web service from day one, taking into account multiple users, permissions, different views etc etc. Another goal, was that you wont need to open 5 different consoles in order to provision a host, that eventually lead to integrating: dns, dhcp, tftp, puppetca, virtual machine creation, puppet class assignments, hierarchical variables support, audit log etc all in one place. Foreman users have come up with interesting usages cases, from using it purely for monitoring puppet to ramp up whole datacenters. its API is used today to feed external monitoring services, provision hosts, update on the fly many hosts, and there is even a mobile app who utilize foreman. Foreman is also not restricted to a specific subnet, datacenter etc, rather is supposed to work across network segments and different backend software (e.g. ms dns server, isc dhcp server etc) using its smart proxy architecture. My hope, is that by using Foreman, you can provide your users much better service, taking you out of the deployment loop, e.g. You users can consume your services, without you being actively part of it. I obviously didnt cover every single aspect of foreman, but I hope it gives you some useful information, if not, simply ask, or join our mailing list or irc room (#theforeman) to ask more questions. Ohad > “Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere > in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.” > Bill Waterson (Calvin & Hobbes) > > ----- Brian <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > On Jul 7, 2:47 pm, Dan White <[email protected]> wrote: > > > In "Pro Linux System Administration" Mr. Turnbull discusses Cobbler and > Puppet > > > In "Pro Puppet" he discusses Foreman and Puppet. > > > > > > Would anyone out there be willing and able to talk about the > differences between Cobbler and Foreman as they relate to Puppet and what > factors I should consider in choosing one of them ? > > > > Red Hat is using Foreman in CloudForms System Engine, their successor > > to Satellite. I'd take this as a strong vote of confidence in Foreman. > > > > https://www.redhat.com/archives/spacewalk-list/2011-July/msg00019.html > > > > All the best, > > Brian > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
