I decided to raise this issue here, because I thought it more appropriate to get an answer from Redhat/Foreman about the future of what openstack puppet modules will be distributed with RDO.

I have a multinode setup with Foreman 1.5 and I am trying to install Openstack Icehouse milestone 3. I've used packages from the openstack-icehouse repo in the RDO release.

When I try to converge the contoller node, it throws this error:

Error: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on SERVER: Puppet::Parser::AST::Resource failed with error ArgumentError: Could not find declared class rabbitmq::server at /usr/share/openstack-puppet/modules/nova/manifests/rabbitmq.pp:89 on node controller.localnet

Digging into the issue raised some pretty important questions, because the openstack-puppet modules which this package pulls in have been deprecated, not just in Icehouse but also Havana. The preferred method moving forward here seems to be using Hiera, which Foreman does not officially support except with plugins (according to http://projects.theforeman.org/issues/979).

What is the direction that Foreman and Redhat are going to take? Are these versions of the puppet modules going to be maintained by Redhat/Foreman, or will a transition be made to the "official" puppetlabs-openstack modules, or something else?