Foreman

Foreman is an open source lifecycle management tool for physical and virtual servers, covering provisioning, configuration, orchestration and monitoring. It helps system administrators automate repetitive tasks, deploy applications, and manage infrastructure across on-premise and cloud environments, while keeping a single source of truth across multiple locations and organizations.

Core capabilities include provisioning on bare metal and providers such as Amazon EC2, Google Compute Engine, OpenStack, Libvirt, oVirt and VMware; configuration management with Puppet, Ansible, Chef and Salt; host inventory, host groups, and subnet and domain management; and monitoring through reports, facts, trends and a configurable dashboard. Interaction is available through a web UI, Hammer CLI and a RESTful API, with role-based access control, LDAP and FreeIPA authentication, audit trails, and a plugin architecture for extending functionality. Additional plugins cover remote execution, Ansible roles, OpenSCAP compliance management, and content management with Yum, deb and Puppet repositories.

Foreman is aimed at system administrators managing servers across data centers, offices and hybrid cloud environments. It is distributed as an open source project; the pages do not describe paid editions, trials or seat-based packaging.