how to use it?

[kostyrev]

Hello there!
It seems to be interesting code, is it merged? Are there any plans to merge? How one can use it right now if it's not merge yet.
thanks!

[Nosmoht]

Hi,

just install the Python library on your Ansible control server and use the examples from README.MD.

Small example how i use it to deploy CoreOS Cluster:

---
 - hosts: local
   connection: local
   gather_facts: false
   tasks:
   - name: Ensure CoreOS nodes
     foreman_host:
       name: '{{ item.name }}'
       build: true
       compute_profile: '{{ coreos_host_compute_profile }}'
       compute_resource: '{{ coreos_host_compute_resource }}'
       environment: production
       hostgroup: '{{ coreos_host_hostgroup }}'
       location: '{{ foreman_default_location }}'
       managed: true
       organization: '{{ foreman_default_organization }}'
       parameters: '{{ coreos_host_parameters }}'
       state: '{{ coreos_host_state }}'
       foreman_host: '{{ foreman_host }}'
       foreman_port: '{{ foreman_port }}'
       foreman_user: '{{ foreman_user }}'
       foreman_pass: '{{ foreman_pass }}'

Beforehand you should use foreman_compute_profile, foreman_compute_resource, ... to configure Foreman resources. Variables like compute_resource, compute_profile are just strings. You can get them by curling your Foreman API.

As i'm using Foreman to create my cloud-init i have to pass some parameters which Foreman needs to build it. Example:

coreos_host_parameters:
- name: coreos_version
  value: '{{ coreos_version }}' 
- name: coreos_channel
  value: '{{ coreos_channel }}' 
- name: users
  value: '{{ coreos_users | github_ssh_users_foreman }}' 
- name: user_primary_group
  value: '{{ coreos_user_primary_group }}' 
- name: user_groups
  value: '{{ coreos_user_groups | join(",") }}' 

When using my Python-Foreman module you can Backup your Foreman in an Ansible usable format using -a.

Hope this helps

P.S. It's not merged. Feel free to fork and used it. It's for free :-)

[kostyrev]

Thanks for additional info!
I'm currently trying to use it.
I've submitted some PRs.
So I'm closing it.

[Nosmoht]

Great. Thanks. Please let me know your test results. I would really like to create a PR to the Ansible extra modules repo.

[kostyrev]

IMHO unfortunately, your code will never make it because of http://ansible-project.narkive.com/xM2B8jCh/ansible-and-theforeman-integration