Development of a plugin for the opensource server lifecycle management tool Foreman
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Description
For the deployment of bare-metal and virtual machines, SCC is starting to use Foreman [0] which is a complete lifecycle management tool for physical and virtual servers. Therby, Foreman already supports many virtualization environments like e.g. Redhat Enterprise Virtualisaion [1] and VMWare [2].
The objective of this project is the development of a Foreman Plugin which allows the deployment of so called LPARS [3] on Power8 hardware [4].
Tasks
- research the functionality and ability of Foremans plugin mechanism [5]
- implementation of the plugin which allows the deployment of Power8 LPARS
- testing the plugin
Requirements
- programming experience in RUBY [6] would be helpful
References
- [0] https://theforeman.org/
- [1] https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/virtualization
- [2] http://www.vmware.com/
- [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_partition
- [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POWER8
- [5] https://theforeman.org/plugins/
- [6] https://www.ruby-lang.org