Foreman + OpenBolt – A <3 Story in Three Acts
End of 2024, we started a journey of integrating OpenBolt into Foreman.
This turned into a series of conference talks:
- At the Foreman Birthday Party 2025 I gave a presentation about migrating from Puppet Enterprise to Foreman + OpenVox.
- At the Config Management Camp 2026 I spoke about integrating OpenBolt tasks into Foreman.
- This talk is part three of the series - integrating Choria as a transport protocol for scaleable remote execution and orchestration with the OpenBolt Plugin.
- What actually is Choria?
- How do I configure this?
- Why do I want to use this awesome OpenBolt integration for all of my daily sysops tasks and platform orchestration?
- Why is this the perfect combination to Foreman and OpenVox and the missing piece for orchestration (why is it cooler than Ansible or the existing remote execution in Foreman)?
We will go into the details on: