ForemanUserdata

This plug-in adds a user-data endpoint to The Foreman for usage with cloud-init.

Compatibility

Foreman Version	Plugin Version
>= 1.12	any

Installation

See Plugins install instructions for how to install Foreman plugins. You need to install the package tfm-rubygem-foreman_userdata.

Client setup

On RHEL7 using cloud-init from EPEL:

yum install cloud-init -y

cat << EOF > /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg.d/10_foreman.cfg
datasource_list: [NoCloud]
datasource:
  NoCloud:
    seedfrom: http://foreman.example.com/userdata/
EOF

Client debug

# Purge all cloud-init data
rm -rf /var/lib/cloud/*

# Run in foreground with debug mode enabled
/usr/bin/cloud-init -d init

Development

To test this plugin manually during development, you can request a template for a specific host by spoofing the host's IP address via a request header.

curl -D - -H 'X-FORWARDED-FOR: 192.168.1.1' http://localhost:3000/userdata/user-data

Copyright

Copyright (c) 2016 Timo Goebel

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.