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

Contact

Nico.Schlitter@kit.edu