Playlist "VoxConf 2026"

Foreman + OpenBolt – A <3 Story in Three Acts

Tim Meusel

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.

We will go into the details on:



• 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)?