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Hi Kashif, I'm still looking into using foreman for our provisioning. We don't use it in production yet. Take anything I'm going to say with a grain of salt. I haven't encountered any problems with Foreman's Puppet integration. You can get all the classes which are defined on the Puppet master and assign them to nodes. You also have access to the facts and can use them in templates, the catch is that Puppet needs to have run at least once on the node for the facts to be available in Foreman. As for Hiera, there doesn't seem to be any direct integration of Hiera in Foreman, you can't modify your Hiera configuration from within Foreman. Instead they use smart variables which are being passed as class parameters via the ENC. This should only work for parameterized classes, it shouldn't work with classes that contain direct Hiera calls. It works similar to Hiera, you can define or override parameters on each level of your node definition hierarchy (global, host groups, host). I haven't tried smart variables myself with Puppet, because I have no intention of using them. We will keep writing our profile manifests and only use Foreman to assign profiles or classes to hosts and keep writing the Hiera configuration files ourselves. It would be nice if the backend of the smart variables could be configured to write Hiera configuration files rather than using the ENC. Cheers, Robert On 24/11/15 09:08, Kashif Mohammad wrote: > Hi All > > Is anyone using foreman for provisioning with puppet and Hiera for config management? I tried it long time back and at that time integration with puppet was quite buggy. I am looking to replace our local IT setup and foreman is one of the options. I installed foreman 1.9 and seems lot of things have changed in new release. > > Cheers > > Kashif > > > > >