I was searching around, in the past it wasn't recommended to use foreman with PE. Since puppet is 'optional' nowadays, did anyone successfully configured foreman instance to be a client of PE and use PE agent?

both work fine together. you just need to decide what you want as ENC

I want to use foreman only for katello, for package management

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a default Katello install no longer enables Puppet

Foreman does, but that's because we reuse the certificates

hence the question, how to decouple all puppet components and use external puppet infra?

I have looked at how integration should work, but never really found something that I thought was satisfying

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Hello, everyone. I searched for this error and it seems like it was mentioned back in april, but i can’t understand if there is a solution or if this is something i’m doing wrong. I started working with the foreman module and getting the following error:

Error: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 500 on SERVER: Server Error: Evaluation Error: Resource type not found: Redis::RedisUrl (file: /etc/puppetlabs/code/environments/master/modules/foreman/manifests/init.pp, line: 288, column: 12)

The line is

Optional[Redis::RedisUrl] $dynflow_redis_url = undef,

It’s optional, so why is puppet complaining about it? Thank you.

it sounds like you don't have the Redis module or a too old version

Puppet still needs the Redis::RedisUrl type to exist - this isn't that there's no value for it

so in particular: https://github.com/voxpupuli/puppet-redis/blob/master/types/redisurl.pp

https://github.com/voxpupuli/puppet-redis/commit/8b7104e76f35613ec972abfbe4caf8206b28a72c introduced that, so you need at least version 4.0.0

but the module lists 5.0.0 as the oldest supported

This one? https://forge.puppet.com/modules/puppet/redis/readme . In case i stumble upon a similar issue, how could have i figured out on my own? What did I do wrong?

it says "Resource type not found: Redis::RedisUrl"

Fair. Did I specify the correct module?

it's hard to say, there are a few reasons why it can't be found

I'd start with looking at the environment and see which modules are available

There is no documentation that i missed?

Wouldn’t it be under Dependencies?

Okay, thank you! With each question, i learn more. I appreciate your help.

it's really specific to our environment, but https://github.com/theforeman/foreman-infra/blob/master/puppet/check_dependencies is what I use to verify the deps - I wish we had some generic tool

Ok i’m very sorry, i have another question. My Puppetfile specifies the latest version 23.0.0. If i look on metadata.json, it’s listing

{

"name": "puppet/redis",

"version_requirement": ">= 5.0.0 < 9.0.0"

}

Even though in github it’s < 10.0.0.

See the

puppet-redis

module at https://forge.puppet.com/puppet/redis?src=slack&amp;channel=voxpupuli

do remember that r10k doesn't do dependency resolution for your Puppetfile: you must list all modules explicitly

Yes, i’m just curious why the difference. Shouldn’t metadata.json be the same?

that's what r10k doesn't do: it doesn't look at metadata.json