Introduction

Foreman is an open-source complete life cycle systems management tool for provisioning, configuring and monitoring physical and virtual servers. Foreman has deep integration to configuration management software, with Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Salt and other solutions through plugins, which allows users to automate repetitive tasks, deploy applications, and manage change to deployed servers.

Foreman is used by system administrators to manage servers throughout their lifecycle, from provisioning and configuration to orchestration and monitoring.

In this article, we will show how to install Foreman on Ubuntu 20.04.

Adding hostname in the host's file

Adding the server’s hostname to its public IP address in the host's file.
```
$ sudo nano /etc/hosts
```
The below line should be added to the host's file.
```
(your_instance_ip_address) (your_domain_name or server_name)
```
Save and close the file.

Install Packages

Install dependency packages.

$ sudo apt install -y apt-transport-https wget gpg gnupg ca-certificates

Downloading the Puppet repository.

$ sudo wget https://apt.puppet.com/puppet6-release-focal.deb

Adding the Puppet repository.

$ sudo dpkg -i ./puppet6-release-focal.deb

Adding Foreman repository to the system with the following details below.

echo "deb http://deb.theforeman.org/ focal 3.0" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/foreman.list

echo "deb http://deb.theforeman.org/ plugins 3.0" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/foreman.list

Download the Foreman GPG keys.

$ sudo wget -q https://deb.theforeman.org/pubkey.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -

Update the package index.
```
$ sudo apt update
```

Install Foreman package

Downloading the foreman installer.
```
$ sudo apt -y install foreman-installer
```
Run the foreman installer.
(Note: This process will take some time to install).
```
$ sudo foreman-installer
```
Output
From the above screenshot, you can see the default credentials for login into Foreman Web UI. Copy the initial credentials to the clipboard.

Verify Foreman installation

After the successful installation of the Foreman, Open the browser and enter the following URL.
```
(your_instance_ip_address or domain/server name)
```
Output
Use the Initial credentials already copied to the clipboard to log in to your Foreman Account. Once after successfully log in you will see the dashboard page of Foreman.