foreman
an application that automates the lifecycle of servers (by theforeman)
patchman
Patchman is a Linux Patch Status Monitoring System (by furlongm)
| foreman | patchman | |
|---|---|---|
| 40 | 8 | |
| 2,624 | 361 | |
| 0.5% | - | |
| 9.4 | 6.8 | |
| 7 days ago | 28 days ago | |
| Ruby | Python | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
foreman
Posts with mentions or reviews of foreman.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-10-07.
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What's New in Ruby on Rails 8
Still a bunch of stuff that runs on ruby that isn't webdev, https://github.com/theforeman/foreman is a big one I can think of. Ruby's quite nice for sysadmin tasks, puppet, chef etc all in ruby iirc.
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How to Manage On-premise Infrastructure with Terraform
Foreman
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From Dotenv to Dotenvx: Next Generation Config Management
Not to be confused with the larger foreman[0] also written in ruby.
[0] https://theforeman.org
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Overmind, a better foreman or bin/dev for your Procfile
I was confused because there is https://github.com/ddollar/foreman and https://github.com/theforeman/foreman
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Deploying 100+ windows 10 devices per week. Need to automate.
In case you're unable to use intune, a free approach might be https://theforeman.org/ That works well for provisioning baremetal windows (with discovery image or pxe boot) once you've set it up. It supports script access as well as a nice hierarchy for configurations. But it's really not as well documented as it should be.
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Configuration Management Tools for 20-30 servers
I use the foreman with puppet and pxe/kickstart scripts to automate VM/baremetal provisioning etc.
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How to change REX sudoer file installed by Satellite Registration?
It comes from the remote execution user snippet: https://github.com/theforeman/foreman/blob/develop/app/views/unattended/provisioning_templates/snippet/remote_execution_ssh_keys.erb
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Your Favorite Type 1 Hypervisor and Why
KVM & Foreman
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Server management tool with GUI
Might want to look into https://theforeman.org/ if it's not too complex for you
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Stockpiling Linux ISOs?
The iso images are typically locked at a certain verison. The update repositories sounds like what you are looking for to cache updates. Look into theforeman.org and specifically the plugin Katello. This is an upstream for Red Hat's Satellite product. Another option would be Canonical's MAAS. Both of these options Sound like what you are headed for unless you really just mean synchronize into a folder and store the images in which case yeah.....just use rsync.
patchman
Posts with mentions or reviews of patchman.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-21.
- System monitoring tool
- Server management software (patching,...)
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WSUS Alternative solution for Linux Systems
If monitoring is your primary concern, check out Patchman. As others have mentioned, an Apt caching solution is the way to go for bandwidth savings.
- Software to central check update status of servers
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Linux Patch Management
Patchman might be something for you.
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Monitoring Linux package upgrades
Currently I am aware of https://github.com/furlongm/patchman but it's old software still using python2 and doesn't really take into account specific package pinning priorities. I also thought about using Ansible and/or Saltstack but both of those require SSH connection or custom TCP session in Salt case.
- Patch level monitoring dashboard for both RedHat/Ubuntu
What are some alternatives?
When comparing foreman and patchman you can also consider the following projects:
Cobbler - Cobbler is a versatile Linux deployment server
katello-centos-errata-import - Imports CentOS (from http://cefs.steve-meier.de/) errata into Katello
katello - Katello integrates open source systems management tools into a single solution for controlling the lifecycle of your machines.
pck3r - This program created for novice in linux and can handle almost things in ubuntu and all distributions based on debian(package manager : "apt")...
xcat-core - Code repo for xCAT core packages
banking-system - A Banking System Concept Created Using Django Python Web Framework and Tailwind CSS
manageiq - ManageIQ Open-Source Management Platform
django-drf-filepond - A Django app providing a server implemention for the Filepond file upload library
kubernetes - Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management
uksm - Ultra Kernel Samepage Merging
SaltGUI - A web interface for managing SaltStack based infrastructure.
prometheus-rpm - Prometheus RPM Packages