Directions for Plugin Development setup

[jrich523]

Looking to do some plugin dev and it appears that this setup wasnt really specifically designed for that. Is that something that can be added?

[ekohl]

You could have a look at luna-devel. which you can base yourself on.

[jrich523]

@ekohl just out of curiosity, why?
I've been talking to the folks in the irc channel and have been making some (painful) progress.

At this point im using the centos7-devel, but its rather heavy for just plugin dev. how is the luna different?

[ekohl]

At this point im using the centos7-devel, but its rather heavy for just plugin dev. how is the luna different?

I'd say luna is even heavier because there's additional plugins. I don't think we have a good playbook for a vanilla Foreman without Katello and its dependencies. I've never automated this because it's very few steps. See https://theforeman.org/contribute.html#Setupdevelopmentenvironment

It would be interesting to also set up a proxy in development mode and register it but that's one API call after you've started the server.