grizzthedj/foreman_ipam

Foreman plugin for integration with External IPAM providers

foreman_ipam

Foreman plugin for IPAM integration with External IPAM providers. Provides a basic Dashboard for viewing External IPAM groups and subnets via External IPAM Smart Proxy API's.

Installation

See How_to_Install_a_Plugin for how to install Foreman plugins.

Usage

Once plugin is installed, you can look at the External IPAM Dashboard at Infrastructure --> External IPAM, for a simple view of groups and subnets.

Local development

1. Clone the Foreman repo

git clone https://github.com/theforeman/foreman.git

2. Clone the Smart Proxy repo

git clone https://github.com/theforeman/smart-proxy

3. Fork both the foreman plugin and smart proxy plugin repos, then clone

foreman_ipam repo: https://github.com/grizzthedj/foreman_ipam
smart_proxy_ipam repo: https://github.com/grizzthedj/smart_proxy_ipam

git clone https://github.com/<GITHUB_USER>/foreman_ipam
git clone https://github.com/<GITHUB_USER>/smart_proxy_ipam

4. Add the foreman_ipam plugin to Gemfile.local.rb in the Foreman bundler.d directory

gem 'foreman_ipam', :path => '/path/to/foreman_ipam'

5. From Foreman root directory run

bundle install
bundle exec rails db:migrate
bundle exec rails db:seed
bundle exec foreman start

6. Add the smart_proxy_ipam plugin to Gemfile.local.rb in Smart Proxy bundler.d directory

gem 'smart_proxy_ipam', :path => '/path/to/smart_proxy_ipam'

7. Copy config/settings.d/externalipam.yml.example to config/settings.d/externalipam.yml, and set enabled to true, and use_provider to externalipam_phpipam or externalipam_netbox.

8. Copy config/settings.d/externalipam_phpipam.yml.example to config/settings.d/externalipam_phpipam.yml and replace values with your phpIPAM URL and credentials.

9. Copy config/settings.d/externalipam_netbox.yml.example to config/settings.d/externalipam_netbox.yml and replace values with your Netbox URL and API token.

10. From Smart Proxy root directory run ...

bundle install
bundle exec smart-proxy start

11. Navigate to Foreman UI at http://localhost:5000
12. Add a Local Smart Proxy in the Foreman UI(Infrastructure => Smart Proxies)
13. Ensure that the External IPAM feature is present on the proxy(http://proxy_url/features)
14. Create a Subnet, and associate the subnet to the External IPAM proxy

Run tests

From the Foreman core, run ...

bundle exec rails test:foreman_ipam

Contributing

Fork and send a Pull Request. Thanks!

Copyright

Copyright (c) 2019 Christopher Smith

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.