alexxnica / foreman-ansible

Ansible playbook to deploy a complete Foreman instance within minutes.

Foreman Ansible Playbook

Ansible playbook to deploy a complete up and running Foreman instance within minutes.

Features

The goal of this playbook is to offer a fully automated way to deploy a complete and ready-to-use Foreman instance within minutes.

It contains multiple different roles with numerous customizable variables, which provide the following features:

• setup database (SQLite or MySQL)
• setup webserver (plain nginx as a proxy or nginx-passenger)
• setup isc-dhcp-server
• setup TFTP server
• setup foreman-proxy
• setup Foreman including configuration (templates, hosts, domains, etc.)

None of the roles will install Puppet or use the official foreman-installer, instead the plain Foreman packages are used!

In addition this playbook makes use of foreman-yml to automatically configure Foreman through the API based on a YAML file, which includes adding all templates, OS, media, hosts, etc. and linking them accordingly.

Please note that at the current time the following distributions are supported:

• Debian 7 & 8
• Ubuntu 14.04 & 16.04
• CentOS 6 & 7
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 & 7

Requirements

The target machine should fulfill the following requirements before the playbook is applied:

• FQDN configured
• SELinux disabled
• Required ports 67, 69, 80, 443, etc. open
• Internet and repository access (e.g. Red Hat Optional repository)

Ansible 2.0+ is required to use this playbook!

Installation

Below the required steps to execute the default playbook:

1. Clone this repository

2. Initialize the submodules containing the foreman-yml repository: :

   $ git submodule update --init

3. Install and configure Ansible to manage the target server

4. Create an inventory file containing either the hostname or IP address of target machine: :

   $ echo "$TARGET_IP" > /tmp/inventory

5. Use the playbook foreman.yml to deploy a default setup with MySQL, nginx-passenger, TFTP, DHCP and foreman-proxy: :

   $ ansible-playbook foreman.yml -i /tmp/inventory -u root

6. After a successful deployment you should be able to access Foreman through http://$TARGET_IP/.

The password of the admin user is by default set to foreman. In addition safemode_render is changed to false.

Examples

The templates directory contains example foreman-yml YAML templates to give you a head start to bootstrap Foreman.

In addition the variables overwritten in vars/example.yml are the minimum amount of variables that need to be defined, e.g. the MySQL role does not create any users or databases by default.

Roles

Below a short overview of all included roles:

Name	Description
common	update apt cache
foreman	add repos and install Foreman
foreman_proxy	add repos, install and configure foreman-proxy
foreman_yml	configure the Foreman instance with foreman-yml
isc_dhcp_server	install and configure isc-dhcp-server
mysql	install MySQL, create users and databases
nginx	add upstream repos if requested and setup nginx
passenger_nginx	add repos and setup passenger-nginx
sqlite	install sqlite and create db directory
tftp	install and setup TFTP including PXE boot files

Upcoming features

See the issues page for a list of upcoming and planned features.

Contributions

Contributions are more than welcome! Please feel free to open new issues or pull requests.

License

GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 3

See the LICENSE file.