Foreman is another fantastic open source Configuration and provisioning tool.Foreman provides dashboard from which we can provision bare metal servers and virtual machines.By default whenever we install Foreman it uses Puppet as a configuration tool.Though Foreman also supports integration with other configuration management tools like Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Salt and other various tools with the help of plugins. The Foreman automation tool also comes with various interfaces including a command line interface, web front end and also along with a REST API. Some of other noticeable features of foreman are listed below :
- Managing Puppet Modules and modification in puppet classes via dashboard.
- Puppet Environment can easily be managed from Foreman dashboard
- Creating Hosts Group and adding puppet modules to host group become easy because of dashboard.
- Puppet Modules can be applied or pushed to its nodes from Foreman dashboard with ease.