#theforeman

klaas__: for using in post install

then it should not be overwritten Han :)

klaas__: it should be nicer when we were able to use the installmedua for it like preseed does

klaas__, indeed, it should :-)

I have no idea what you're talking about rizonz - but templates are not really part of the installer - you can use your own templates

I already put the omapi key in a separate file so all I have to do is add an include.

klaas__: temmplates are not ?, you should better look into them then ;)

no, you only have the default templates that are seeded, but if you don't want to use them you're free to use others

klaas__: the default ones are far from perfect

they are better now but they have faults

they are not supposed to be perfect, but its open source -- if you have a different use case you just create your own

they are not overwritten by installer

what has the installed todo with it?

*installer

you said you don't rerun installer because it destroys things

I said you should be able to rerun the installer without it destroying things :)

klaas__: indeed, I run a HA solution, as the guys that run serious foreman installs, they never run it again

*ask

then you should maybe crontribute to making the installer HA ready :)

because in general you should run the installer again, for updates for example

klaas__: no that is really not needed at all

I put my /etc/ dir in git. Saves me a lot of guessing.

you need to make sure that config changes are correctly applied, and that you have the latest versions of things like the ENC and report processor scripts. re-running the installer is the easiest way to achieve that

there are alternatives, but it's the lowest common denominator

personally i have the same puppet modules as the installer uses in my puppet manifests, so I'm effectively running it every 30min :P

heh

I never run the installer again, and I'm pretty sure I never will

you just simply can't

not even in a default setup

thats your opinion, but plenty of people do without issues

I'd even go as far as saying most devs think that way ;)

gwmngilfen: no people like the HA users in here

gwmngilfen: it would be nice if there is a scripts that checks all settings, imports them so you can check your installer script

thats a small number of people, and definitely not a default setup

sure, that'd be great. patches welcome :)

gwmngilfen: yeah already thought about it... time time time atm

gwmngilfen: do you use local repo's ?

package repos?

yes, liek you install centos from a local mirror, but then... it doesn't update centos.repo with it like with ubuntu

no, i don't, i use the default mirrors when doing network installs (although mostly I use prebuilt images)

gwmngilfen: about the patches, I comment now on the community templates, but mmoll seems to do only his thing there as he always did and does... talking about the community feeling

gwmngilfen: ok

i'm sorry if you feel unfairly treated, please do direct me to examples. personally, I find mmoll to be one of the most dedicated, professional and courteous people in our community

gwmngilfen: is it possible to get mediapath without the --url ? or only your mirror URL, so without the release and arch in a template ?

i don't think so, but it's been a while. maybe ask on the mailing list

gwmngilfen: he does his thing, heis busy, be he is selective, which is not good

gwmngilfen: yeah already found only mediapath

lots of people asking about it, no clue about a solution

there is some wrong kickstart/puppet mix there because of it

I'm trying to update the organization of a foreman user with hammer 0.7, but my organization name contains a , 'foo, bar' Is there a way to tell hammer that is the name and not two different parameters?

usually that should work with quotes or escaping but you should be able to just use the id check --help

klaas__: Ah, I did not see the --organization-ids option. Thanks! Now I just need to rewrite the sync script.

klaas__, the preseed_default.erb also does not support multiple interfaces.

hey, I'm using foreman 1.14.2 with foreman-hooks and I'm not getting host's parameters on the json foreman produces.

is there a reason for that? :)

Han: I see another PR coming? :) I only use redhat/suse systems so I can't say much to preseed etc

Yeah, I have to fix this.

But it should be a lot easier this time. The debian installer is not as pretty as anaconda, but it sure is easier than autoyast.

hehe yeah, the xml autoyast stuff is the most complicated -- I try to not fiddle with it unless I have serious problems ;)

thats why I do most of my configuration over puppet and only a very basic system via autoyast

Let's see if my autoyast really supports multiple interfaces.

klaas__, that's also a solution.

ponders...

I use the example42 network module, it should have sles12 support by now - I saw that my changes got merged a while back :)

yay

I do all routing etc inside puppet, not in the templates

you just need the interfaces to be up, otherwise you get into trouble because it reports the interfaces as facts during install

ok

there is a bit of chicken-and-egg problem if you use the foreman interfaces inside puppet :)

Yes, I noticed the hard way while I just ran the installer which changed some important settings.

For example my apache/sites-* dirs were overwritten. :\

That was rather uncalled for.

Han: I thought preseed does spport that, I see a line "<% @host.managed_interfaces.each do |interface| %>"

why do you have custom things in there?

Han: vlan and bonding is not supported with preseed for sure

for the mirror

han, you know about the -n flag for the installer?

it uns puppet in noop mode so you can review the proposed changes

*runs

Han: you should then maybe try to put everything into puppet using the modules the installer uses -- otherwise you'll run into issues like this again

mmoll, in the debian/ubuntu provisioning template? Then we're talking about another template.

gwmngilfen, great tip, cheers!

Han: if you didn't already know that, then we need to put that somewhere more obvious in the docs :)

Han: https://git.io/vSZ0D

mmoll, ah, there! in the preseed_default.erb there is also some network stuff.

In my provisioning network I set no gateway, in the production network I set the gateway. On the installed host the prov. network was configed with an empty gateway and the prod. was not configured.

Setting the prod. to primary doesn't work, I get complaints about the machine name.

Of course I would love to set the prod network to primary. I mean, that makes most sense.

so, the foreman-hook json is rendered from here right?

which just gets from /api/v2/hosts/<id>

and when you get from foreman directly, it shows hosts parameters

but on the rendered json from hooks nope

klaas__, ok, let's do it your way.