Maurice, we have this too - I posted here originally (and some time ago!) - https://groups.google.com/d/msg/foreman-users/Xn3hAYL95QM/r1D22blTBgAJ
Our script(s): - create lifecycles / locations / settings etc - enable / sync RH repos - create / sync custom repos (and add urls) - create gpg keys - create and assign sync plans - create content view, publish version 1 and promote to all lifecycles - create activation keys, assign subscriptions - create / upload provisioning templates, partition tables etc - creates hostgroups, assigns OSs to them - allows for provisioning template lifecycle overrides per host groups etc - sets parameters throughout It's all heavily structured (and we nest a lot) and the input file is a big chunk of yaml. The api scripts are written in (bad) ruby - I'm not really a programmer! - started originally RH professional services. On Monday, August 15, 2016 at 6:12:35 AM UTC-4, Maurice Mouw wrote: > > Hi, > > I've been working on a project for a completely automated setup of > Foreman, this includes subnets, dns-zones, etc. I will not bore you with > the details but i've got this pretty much setup and it works. The company > I'm doing this project for uses configuration files that describe what > hosts should be setup with what details. I've created a converter for these > files that enables me to import this data using the REST API. This again > works well no troubles. Now this is basically the initial setup, after the > import is done I do not want to use these old configuration files but > something structured for example in JSON. So I was thinking of writing a > script that extracts all the (JSON) data that I want to a file. Than it > needs to be possible to reinstall the Foreman server and import the file > again using a script. After the import is done I should basically be able > to deploy nodes again as if nothing happened. For now the JSON file should > include an organization, multiple locations, multiple hostgroup, multiple > subnets, one or more domains, the hosts and all the parameters defined in > Foreman. Everything will be linked to a organization.Than my questions: > > > - Is setting up on or more scripts for this a viable way for doing > this? > - Is there more efficient way of doing this (maybe this is easier > using the hammer cli or just extracting it out of the database)? > - Is there anybody out there already doing something similar, if so > how? > - Are there people interested in a setup like this? > > I would assume Foreman being written in ruby that this would be the best > language to do it in. Unfortunately I'm not very proficient in ruby and > will most likely do this in either python or PHP. > -- 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 foreman-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to foreman-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/foreman-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
