Recap: The Foreman Birthday Party @ATIX

This year we had the pleasure of hosting Foreman’s 9th birthday party.

Once upon a time

On July 13, 2009, Ohad Levy launched a new project that would later be called “The ForeMan”.

Nine years later, The Foreman has grown up and is famous for managing and automating a large number of IT infrastructures with several thousand servers. Today, Foreman is also an important component of enterprise system management solutions such as Red Hat Satellite 6 and orcharhino.

We celebrate…

The party started at 10 a.m. with birthday presents for all party guests. Everyone received T-shirts, stickers and party helmets for the foreman.

After a short introduction, we started our hack and try sessions. Strengthened by mate tea and coke, three groups worked very successfully on foreman-ansible, foreman-probing and the chat integration for foreman messaging. Only interrupted by a short lunch break, the sessions continued until 14:30, when the “official” part began. This time we were able to listen to some very interesting presentations: Bernhard and Markus from ATIX showed us the possibilities of securing software repositories with gpg keys. Dirk Götz from NETWAYS gave a very good overview and a demo of his favorite Foreman plugins. Foreman community developer Adam presented the latest extensions of the remote execution plugin and the integration of Ansible.

What would a birthday party be without cake? Nothing!

The foreman was nine years old – so there was a big birthday cake with nine candles! After the “Happy Birthday” song, Adam was chosen to blow out the candles and wish the birthday boy a happy birthday. The party continued with interesting conversations over pizza and beer.