NOTE: This book was originally written for Satellite 6.0 but has now been updated for Satellite 6.1 and Satellite 6.2 beta.
Red Hats latest version of their Lifecycle Management tool, Red Hat Satellite 6, is a big change from earlier versions
Version 5 was based on the upstream, open source project called Spacewalk, which also included the Cobbler project, where as the latest version is a combination of a few other open source projects - Katello & Foreman.
Foreman itself is also a combination of open source code written by themselves and and open source project called Puppet (by Puppet Labs). While Katello is also a combination of Candlepin and Pulp
As such, while the latest version has the potential to do much more and scale far beyond earlier versions, with this comes some more complexity.
###About the book
This book aims to get you up and running with Satellite 6.0 in the quickest possible time, so that you can start experiencing the benefits it brings as soon as possible. It does not aim at being an in depth reference guide.
We shall use defaults where-ever possible
You are someone who is familiar with administering Linux. You will hopefully have some experience of installing/provisioning and Knowledge of Puppet would also be beneficial but not essential
The book covers Satellite 6.0, 6.1 and the 6.2 beta. The sister book (Getting started with Hammer) has been updated to 6.1
Adrian Bradshaw (abradsha@redhat.com)
Calvin Hartwell (cjh@redhat.com)