Foreman (software)
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Foreman (also known as The Foreman) is an open source complete life cycle systems management tool for provisioning, configuring and monitoring of physical and virtual servers. Foreman has deep integration to configuration management software, with Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Salt and other solutions through plugins, which allows users to automate repetitive tasks, deploy applications, and manage change to deployed servers.
Original author(s) | Paul Kelly and Ohad Levy |
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Initial release | 10 September 2009 (14 years ago) (2009-09-10)[1] |
Stable release | |
Repository | |
Written in | Ruby and JavaScript |
Platform | Cross-platform: Unix, Linux, Microsoft Windows, OS X |
Available in | English, French, German, Spanish |
Type | Systems management |
License | GPL-3.0 |
Website | theforeman |
Foreman provides provisioning on bare-metal (through managed DHCP, DNS, TFTP, and PXE-based unattended installations), virtualization and cloud. Foreman provides comprehensive, auditable interaction facilities, including a web frontend, a command line interface, and a robust REST API.