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What both publish
| Fact | AuroraBoot | Foreman |
|---|---|---|
| Provisioning | It provisions machines over PXE/netboot, Redfish or USB. | Foreman provisions bare-metal systems and instances across virtualization environments and public or private clouds. |
| Purpose | AuroraBoot is the official Kairos bootstrapper for building images, provisioning machines and managing fleets. | Foreman is an open-source tool for managing servers through provisioning, configuration, orchestration, and monitoring. |
| Security limitation | The netboot HTTP server is unauthenticated and serves kernel, initrd, squashfs and cloud-config over plain HTTP to reachable clients. | Foreman can run on a FIPS-enabled host, but Foreman itself is not FIPS-certified. |
| Support | Bug reports and feature requests are directed to the kairos-io/kairos issue tracker, and Kairos lists enterprise support contacts on its website. | Community support is available through the Discourse support board and a public Matrix room; the project says its support room is not an official support channel. |
AuroraBoot plans
- Open-source (Apache License 2.0)Free
Foreman plans
- ForemanFree
Pick AuroraBoot if…
AuroraBoot suits teams building and deploying Kairos-based images across machines or fleets. Its self-hosted setup and documented deployment integrations are relevant to administrators using PXE/netboot or Redfish.
Pick Foreman if…
Foreman is aimed at system administrators managing physical or virtual servers across on-premise and cloud environments. It is better suited to people with Linux system administration knowledge than to newcomers to server management.