does foreman require stored config?

[Hai Tao]

I am trying to isntall foreman, but it seems that it required to
config stored config first, and it will use the puppet database.

can someone explain why it has to use the stored config database?

Thanks.

[llo...@oreillyauto.com]

It only is needed if you want to have the foreman list/show facts and such for the puppet master.

It makes life a lot easier, and makes foreman a lot more useful, and it does make the process of importing classes a lot easier as well.

[Brian Gupta]

I'd like to add that *IF* you are using Foreman as an ENC, the
preferred method of putting facts in the Foreman database is the new
ENC script that updates facts on every puppet run:

https://github.com/theforeman/puppet-foreman/blob/master/templates/external_node.rb.erb

Where you might want to use storeconfigs, is if you want to use the
Puppet language's storeconfig syntax to export and collect resources.
(Or have existing code that uses storeconfigs syntax). You do NOT need
to share the database to do this, and in fact I am personally
discouraging a shared database, since Puppetlabs has indicated that
they eventually plan to deprecate mysql based storeconfigs, and using
UUID certnames in conjunction with Foreman provisioning doesn't work
with a shared database.

While we now have separated our storeconfigs database from the foreman
database, and still have code that uses storeconfigs operators, I am
exploring replacing our storeconfigs code with native puppet functions
that work with foreman searches, as described here:
http://blog.theforeman.org/2012/01/getting-foreman-search-results-into.html

We can do this because we are using the ENC script to keep facts up to date.

I'd love to hear other people's thoughts on this.

Cheers,
Brian

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