[ale] Satellite 6 opinions?

Scott McBrien smcbrien at gmail.com
Fri Oct 17 13:16:34 EDT 2014


Satellite 6 can do custom repos and provisioning.  Behind the scenes it's kickstart and foreman and puppet.  Red Hat has released a 3-day course on it (which does not include provisioning nor custom channel management)

-Scott


> On Oct 17, 2014, at 11:39 AM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> My understanding is 6 does everything 5 did plus. By dropping the custom code for puppet, the ability to manage multiple, different types of Linux systems emerged.
> 
> But, I've not used it yet. I did tinker with Spacewalk (upstream version) while it was still version 5 so 6 is all new for me.
> 
>> On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 10:01 AM, James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Anyone have any opinions on Satellite 6 as opposed Satellite 5?
>> 
>> I'm using 5 to kickstart systems with hosted kickstart profiles that use a few kickstart snippets. I also distribute some system agnostic configurations through a couple configuration channels, serve out local copies of the EPEL (and other) RPM repositories, and serve out some in-house RPM repositories.
>> 
>> Is 6 capable of these tasks? I assume so, but it's not very clear from the documentation. All I'm getting out of it is that the product has completely changed, and is more along the lines of a new interface to Puppet.
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