I beleive there are two very frameworks being used for deployments at the moment, both of which are called "foreman". In the heroku world, foreman seems to reference a software solution - i.e. we use it to run apps locally. In the hardware world , I've seen references to a tool called "theforeman", which ironically, does something similar albeit for running bare metal machines.
Is there a public disambiguation between them, or any relation between them?
http://theforeman.org/manuals/1.3/quickstart_guide.html
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These are indeed two separate projects.
The Foreman is a management tool for physical and virtual servers. It helps system administrators manage servers throughout their lifecycle, from provisioning and configuration to orchestration and monitoring. It was created in 2009 and its github repositories lie here: https://github.com/theforeman
Foreman is a manager for Procfile-based applications. Its aim is to abstract away the details of the Procfile format, and allow you to either run your application directly or export it to some other process management format. It was created in 2010 and its github repository lies here: https://github.com/ddollar/foreman
The two projects are not related in any way and only happen to share the same name and programming language (both are written in ruby).