Shimon Shtein
Hacking Foreman for the past 10 years.
Currently working as a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat.
Sessions
An introduction session into the Foreman project - one tool to manage the whole lifecycle of your servers fleet from a web-based UI.
Lately I have published vision and strategy documents to outline the way we want to continue developing Foreman UI. I would like to discuss those documents in more details in a face to face meeting with a broader group.
Join us for the annual Foreman Community Updates to explore the key developments, discussions, and long-term efforts shaping the Foreman ecosystem over the past year.
We’ll cover major feature work, including the new Job Invocation Detail page, the RFC on Recurring Logic Redesign, and improvements to testing plugins from Foreman Core. On the Katello side, beyond the headline features in the Katello 4.19 release, we are introducing enhancements to Image Mode and Flatpak support. We’re actively seeking user feedback on the use of Image Mode (known upstream as bootable containers) with Foreman & Katello, as well as on our container registry experience.
A significant multi-year effort is underway to modernize the entire Foreman UI to PatternFly 5. This will be a long process (roughly two years) and users can expect many UI changes throughout that period.
We’ll also highlight improvements to the documentation site, such as clearer navigation, new version banners ("Pre-release", "Unsupported", reworked guide/flavor navigation, and continued plans to update documentation around the containerization work. As containerization progresses, especially through the emerging foremanctl tooling, we anticipate extensive documentation updates, including a future streamlined installation guide. For now, only the foremanctl quickstart guide is published.
We’ll review documentation updates including a restructured Provisioning Hosts guide and new OpenSCAP content for non-RHEL clients.
We will also touch on recent community activities, such as the Foreman + AI meetup held in Brno. While AI isn’t a major community focus yet, we plan to share the event recordings soon.
This session is your chance to stay informed, give feedback, and help influence the direction of Foreman’s next generation.