Foreman AzureRM is the plugin for Azure v2 i.e. Azure Resource Manager API. It allows you to provision and manage your hosts in Azure Resource Manager cloud environment. Users do have restricted access within the Azure subscription (such that only they can create hosts) based on Resource Groups in AzureRM.
This plugin 2.0.x series has no dependency of foreman_azure 1.x as they refer to different Azure APIs. This 2.0.x should be compatible with Foreman 1.17 onwards, but it is recommended to use latest Foreman version. Foreman AzureRM is also one of the headline features for Foreman 1.24.
See the Foreman manual.
Set up the repo as explained in the link above, then run
# yum install tfm-rubygem-foreman_azure_rm
Add the following to bundler.d/Gemfile.local.rb in your Foreman installation directory (/usr/share/foreman by default)
$ gem 'foreman_azure_rm'
Then run bundle install from the same directory
Please refer to our documentation Github
Creating the Compute Resource is created requires using four credentials: Client ID, Client Secret, Subscription ID and Tenant ID.
A separate compute resource should be created per region. This means, a region must be specified from the regions available and the cloud instances will then be created based on the region selected for the compute resource.
Once the compute resource with AzureRM provider is created, next step is Host creation.
You have to select your AzureRM compute resource on the Hosts page and the relevant fields shall appear on the Virtual Machine tab.
You can now fill in your resource group, size of the VM you want to provision, username and password or sshkey with which the user can login to the provisioned machine.
In addition to that, you can provide any custom script or command to be executed during the VM creation process.
In the Operating Systems tab, you must specify the Architecture, OS and the relevant Image that you have created under the compute resource. Although, setting up Root Password is not mandatory.
Last specification is for the Network Interface. You should select a domain defined under Foreman and then select Azure subnet and Public or Private IP format.
Upon clicking submit, provisioning should start and VM details will be available on successful provisioning.
Please follow our standard procedures and contacts.
Errors regarding the provisioning will show up on /var/log/foreman/production.log of your Foreman host.
If you find a bug, please file it in Redmine.
See the troubleshooting section in the Foreman manual for more info.
Follow the same process as Foreman for contributing.
The source code for the plugin can be found github.com/theforeman/foreman_azure_rm.
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