Foreman 1.10 is out

Foreman 1.10 was released on 23rd of December 2015 making it an early Christmas present. The headline features include orchestration rebuilder for rebuilding hosts’ DHCP, DNS and TFTP records, global statuses for hosts, host and host group cloning improvements, support for unsetting attributes, enhanced DNS plugin support and parameter improvements. Full release notes can be found here.

Katello 2.4 is out

Katello 2.4 which brings a number of improvements was released on 5th of January 2016, shortly after Foreman’s 1.10 release. This release provides compatibility with Foreman 1.10, migrates most objects from Elasticsearch to scoped_search and lots of improvements and bug fixes. Check out the release notes for a full list of updates.

Thanks to everyone who contributed to these releases - code, testing, bug reports, translations, your efforts are very much appreciated!

New and updated plugins since last December’s newsletter

• foreman-tasks updated to 0.7.10 on 7th of January 2016
• foreman_setup updated to 3.1.0 on 6th of January 2016
• foreman_templates updated to 2.0.3 on 6th of January 2016
• smart_proxy_remote_execution_ssh updated to 0.0.10 on 22nd of December 2015
• foreman-docker updated to 2.0.0 on 18th of December 2015
• foreman-one updated to 0.4 on 18th of December 2015
• smart_proxy_chef updated to 0.1.6 on 18th of December 2015
• chef-handler-foreman updated to 0.1.1 on 18th of December 2015
• foreman_remote_execution updated to 0.1.2 on 17th of December 2015
• hammer-cli updated to 0.5.1 on 15th of December
  • hammer-cli-foreman updated to 0.5.1 on 14th of December
  • hammer_cli_foreman_remote_execution updated to 0.0.2 on 17th of December 2015

New media and blogs

• The latest community demo took place on December 10th. Highlights:
  • Bare metal image-based provisioning (lzap)
  • Remote execution: CLI (stbenjam)
  • Remote execution: Recurrence (aruzicka)
  • Remote execution: Effective user (inecas)
  • Parameter UI improvements (tbrisker)
  • Hammer: Setting parameters for Taxonomies (tstrachota)
  • Hammer: Setting CLI defaults (aglodboi)
  • Community updates (gwmngilfen)
• We held a deep dive about Taxonomies with Daniel Lobato Garcia, covering used Models, how they interact with Roles and Filters and how they interact with other plugins. Thanks Daniel!

Upcoming events

• There is another Deep Dive planned for Tuesday January 19th, where Dmitri Dolguikh will be talking about the Smart Proxy, aiming to provide an overview of proxy plugins and plugin providers, validators, events and event reporting.

• FOSDEM takes place on 30th and 31st of January, where in the Virt/IAAS devroom, Oved Ourfali will be doing a talk on “Bringing Host Lifecycle and Content Management into oVirt”. In this talk Oved will give an overview of oVirt, Foreman, and Katello , and show how we use the latter two in oVirt to give a Powerful Virtualizaed Data-Center Management system. More details are available in talk details

• Config Management Camp takes place on 1st and 2nd of February and Foreman will have dedicated track there. List of Foreman related talks from all tracks includes:
  • Case study: Dynamic management of heterogeneous test environments using Foreman by Shimon Stein
  • Hosts’ Lifecycle with Ansbile and Foreman by Daniel Lobato
  • Community Update by Greg Sutcliffe
  • Intro to parameters in Foreman by Tomer Brisker
  • Demystifying the Foreman by Julien Pivotto
  • Foreman and remote execution by Marek Hulan
  • Security and Compliance reports in foreman by Shlomi Zadok
  • PXEless discovery by Stephen Benjamin
  • There’s a plugin for that by Greg Sutcliffe
  • Extending operating systems support of Foreman by Michael Moll
  • Foreman and PowerDNS by Ewoud Kohl van Wijngaarden
  • Infrastructure as code, foreman_provision by Nils Domrose
  • SaltStack integration with Foreman by Stephen Benjamin
• We will be holding the annual Foreman dinner on January 30th in Brussels. Please sign up via G+ or by mail to Greg if you wish to join us, so that we know how many seats to reserve at the restaurant.

• We will also have a Foreman construction day in Ghent right after Config Management Camp, on February 3rd. Please sign up via Eventbrite if you intend to attend.

• For more details see this post

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