Foreman 1.3 has been released

What’s new in that release ?

Foreman 1.3 has just been released, let’s have a look to the content of that new version:

1. The installer is now based on Kafo project. I didn’t test it because I always install Foreman with a git checkout
2. The Hammer project (the Foreman CLI) is going on ! This is great because Foreman was lacking a good CLI at the beginning. However Core Team still warn that CLI is still limited, to be continued so.
3. On Compute Resource level, the most wanted Amazon EC2 VPC support (Virtual Private Cloud) has been included. On top of that a first shot for GCE (Google Compute Engine) has been released. It’s now quite limited as it doesn’t support VMs that requires persistant disk creation.
4. Spice support for Libvirt Compute Resource is now available
5. And Foreman allows now to transform a VM seen like a BareMetal host in Foreman as … a VM associated to a Compute Resource!
6. There is some changes also on API side. The API v2 is still ‘experimental’ but supports now : REMOTE_USER, smart classes, the network interface management, the power management and boot devices. The API v1 is still the default one.
7. A new foreman-rake command exists now. The goal is to provide a generic wrapper for all Foreman’s related rake commands.

Translations have been improved. Foreman is now translated into 6 languages. Don’t hesitate to participate on Foreman’s Transifex.

Important before migration

The Reports and Facts format structure have changed with removal of Puppet from Foreman Core.

• You have to change your external node scripts (/etc/puppet/node.rb) on your puppet master and use the new one that you can find there.
• You also need to change your report upload script on your puppet master and use the new one

The removal of Puppet from Foreman Core is a really good thing. It will let now the support of other Configuration Management System such as Chef or CFEngine. It should be noted that a first Chef support has begin. You can find the project here.

The official release note and changelog can be found here.
Let’s migrate !