I am currently hard coding a preseed configuration to install foreman on a new machine together with Ubuntu 12.04. The intention is to be able to reproducably create a foreman installation which deploys openstack on brand new machines via PXE.
I think I can achieve this with my manual hacking, but to me it seems to be overkill. Is there a possibility for foreman to provision itself? Can a "temporary" foreman create an install image and provision itself?
Best Answer
Foreman itself is quite straightforward to install, download a installer script, run it. and voila 5 minutes later you have a working (yet unconfigured) foreman installation. Obviously by writing a puppet template you could provision a new foreman installation from within foreman, but the advantages of that are to little in my opinion to justify the time it takes to write the template.