Re: [foreman-users] Re: Migrate from Foreman to Foreman+Katello

[Greg Sutcliffe]

On 18 October 2016 at 04:28, Austin Smith  wrote:

> On Friday, October 14, 2016 at 5:36:35 PM UTC-4, steved0ca wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> It looks like it is not possible to add Katello to an existing Foreman
>> installation. http://projects.theforeman.org/issues/7605
>>
>> Are there any recommended methods of migrating from an existing Foreman
>> only install, to a fresh Foreman+Katello installation? The puppet modules
>> and existing puppet certificates should be easy enough to copy over, but
>> what about my templates/hosts/host groups etc? Any way I can dump this data
>> and import it into the new host?
>>
>
There's a few things you can try - if you want to play with these, start
with a sandbox you can break :)

For any Foreman objects, like Hostgroups, you can probably do something
with hammer-csv (https://github.com/Katello/hammer-cli-csv) to dump objects
from one host and import them to another. Assuming you have both Foreman
instances set up to handle orchestration to the same proxies, I *think*
that'll work for DNS/DHCP etc

For classes assigned to Hosts *only* there's also an ENC importer. To be
honest, hammer-csv is probably better, as this rake task flattens the
hostgroup structure, but as an alternative, look at "foreman-rake -T | grep
puppet:import"

For templates, there's no good way to get them *out* (except maybe
hammer-csv again) as they're stored in the db - but for managing them in
general, you could look to the foreman_templates plugin (
https://github.com/theforeman/foreman_templates) which enables you to use a
git repo as a source of templates. It's a one-way sync though, so you'll
have to populate the repo first.

Hope that helps - do let us know how you get on!
Greg

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[foreman-users] Re: Migrate from Foreman to Foreman+Katello

[Austin Smith]

Same boat here.  Seems to be a lack of docs on that for some reason... 
Pretty excited to get that integration going!  Both projects have come so 
far!!

On Friday, October 14, 2016 at 5:36:35 PM UTC-4, steved0ca wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> It looks like it is not possible to add Katello to an existing Foreman 
> installation. http://projects.theforeman.org/issues/7605
>
> Are there any recommended methods of migrating from an existing Foreman 
> only install, to a fresh Foreman+Katello installation? The puppet modules 
> and existing puppet certificates should be easy enough to copy over, but 
> what about my templates/hosts/host groups etc? Any way I can dump this data 
> and import it into the new host?
>
> Thanks,
> Steve
>
>
>

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