Simplifying Your IT Workflow with Katello and Foreman
- 1. Simplifying Your IT Workflow With Katello and Foreman Nikhil Kathole 1
- 2. About me Who am I, and why you should care? Quality Engineer @ Red Hat Satellite 6 QE Follow me: Twitter: @NikhilKathole1 Github: ntkathole 2
- 3. Agenda What we’re going to cover (quickly) 1. Traditional IT Workflow 2. Overview of Foreman and Katello 3. Configuration management with Ansible 4. OpenSCAP 5. What’s next? 6. Q & A 3
- 4. IT Workflow Operations, Networking, Security, Development 1. Dynamic and distributed infrastructure 2. Repetitive processes 3. Development and deployment 4. Accountability 5. Monitoring, audits and log reports 6. Compliance and policies 4
- 5. 5 How Can I Simplify?
- 6. Foreman Managing the Lifecycle of your Systems 6
- 7. Foreman Plugins 1. Choose the environment as per specific needs 2. Plugins offer custom features and maximize the flexibility Extend and modify the Foreman and Smart-proxy 7
- 8. Foreman Plugins Huge ecosystem of plugins 8
- 9. Provisioning Virtualize _all_ the workloads 1. Provisioning types 2. Manages services through smart-proxy 3. Integration with well known hypervisors and cloud platforms 9
- 10. Provision from anywhere Run the infrastructure of your choice 10 Bare Metal Provisioning - Discovery - Bootdisk Cloud Providers - Openstack - Amazon EC2 - Google Virtualization Infrastructure - RHEV/Ovirt - VMware - Libvirt Linux Containers - Atomic - Docker
- 11. Operating Systems Known to install successfully 11 And many more...
- 12. 12 I got an idea of managing infrastructure, But what about managing contents ?
- 13. Katello Adds the power of content management to Foreman 13 Local Repositories Snapshot content Package and Errata Updates
- 14. Managing contents with Katello 14 External sync/Direct Upload
- 15. How does Katello help? 15 1. Creating custom builds of your content (Dev -> QE -> Stage -> Production) 2. Filtering of contents 3. Updates/Patch management for content hosts 4. Tracer - finds outdated running applications in your system
- 16. 16 What about configuration management ?
- 17. Ansible with Foreman Simplest way to automate apps and IT infrastructure 1. Deploy and assign ansible roles 2. Ansible-rex features 3. Automated job scheduling 17
- 18. Ansible Roles 18
- 21. When Foreman meets AWX Scaling up ansible usage 1. Two Use Cases: a. Dynamic inventory i. Allowing AWX to use Foreman as a dynamic inventory source b. Provisioning callback i. Allowing systems provisioned via Foreman to ‘callback’ to AWX so that playbook runs can happen post provisioning 21
- 24. Provisioning callback How it works? 24 Foreman AWX Compute Resource or Bare Metal 1 3 4 2 5
- 25. OpenSCAP Security Compliance and vulnerability assessment 1. Automate IT compliance and vulnerability risk management across the hybrid enterprise 2. Scan to assess the risk state of the data center against policies 3. Choose what you want : puppet or ansible 25
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- 27. Tell foreman about your world 27 1. Compute Resources 2. Compute Profiles 3. Subnets 4. Domains 5. Operating Systems 6. Activation Keys 7. Ansible Roles 8. Puppet Classes And build a new host ...
- 28. Let’s see the larger picture of your infrastructure! 28
- 29. Huge Bonus 29 1. Large organizations and/or multi-tenancy: a. Organizations (Divisions) b. Locations 2. Smart Proxies located locally on Foreman itself or independent 3. FreeIPA/AD integration 4. Strong RBAC model a. Users / Groups b. Permissions / Filters 5. Automate using RESTful APIs and CLI support (Hammer)
- 30. What’s next... 30 1. Foreman-kubevirt integration 2. Integration with Keycloak 3. GraphQL as api v3 4. Foreman-ansible-modules
- 31. Questions? ● Visit us http://theforeman.org/ ● If you do something cool with Foreman, let us know! ● Find us: − IRC: irc.freenode.net ● #theforeman ● #theforeman-dev − Reach out to us at ● https://community.theforeman.org/ 31
- 32. 32 Want to know more about Ansible integration with Foreman?