Anybody using Red Hat satellite?
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If so I'm curious of what you manage through it. I know it can technically manage everything. I'm more or less wondering which strengths and weaknesses it has.
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@irj said in Anybody using Red Hat satellite?:
If so I'm curious of what you manage through it. I know it can technically manage everything. I'm more or less wondering which strengths and weaknesses it has.
I have a Katello VM that I pull updates in with. We don't use it internally because we have all of our inventory in Tower.
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A weakness is Katello is a huge pain to set up. I literally used forklift to get a Vagrant box up and then used that Vagrant box as a long living VM.
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@stacksofplates said in Anybody using Red Hat satellite?:
A weakness is Katello is a huge pain to set up. I literally used forklift to get a Vagrant box up and then used that Vagrant box as a long living VM.
To be fair one of the bigger problems I had was when RHEL 7.5 came out but hadn't hit CentOS yet. Some packages needed to be updated but weren't yet in CentOS. It might be much easier when all of that is straightened out.
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@stacksofplates said in Anybody using Red Hat satellite?:
A weakness is Katello is a huge pain to set up. I literally used forklift to get a Vagrant box up and then used that Vagrant box as a long living VM.
We had Red Hat come out and setup Satellite for us.
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@irj said in Anybody using Red Hat satellite?:
@stacksofplates said in Anybody using Red Hat satellite?:
A weakness is Katello is a huge pain to set up. I literally used forklift to get a Vagrant box up and then used that Vagrant box as a long living VM.
We had Red Hat come out and setup Satellite for us.
Cheater :winking_face: yeah I can see why you would want that. I wouldnt want to do that myself in prod without someone there
