Automation and Management: Red Hat Satellite Overview

What is Red Hat Satellite?

Red Hat Satellite is a comprehensive system management solution that simplifies the deployment, scalability, and management of Red Hat infrastructure across physical, virtual, and cloud environments. It is a management tool that empowers users to efficiently provision, configure, and update systems while ensuring optimal performance, security, and compliance with diverse standards.

Key Features and Benefits

The features of Red Hat Satellite covers various approaches to provide benefits to its users including:

1. Content management

• Red Hat Satellite promotes systematic application of content (patches, to deployed systems) in all infrastructures.
• Red Hat Satellite gives greater system consistency and availability, making IT to respond more rapidly to business needs and vulnerabilities through:
• Content views – refers to collections of RPMs, Puppet modules, container content, or OSTree content that have been curated with filters and rules. These content views are published and promoted across life-cycle environments to enable end-to-end system management.
• Red Hat content delivery network (CDN) integration – allows users to control synchronization of Red Hat content directly from the user interface.
• Federated life-cycle management – utilizes Red Hat Capsule Server to enable distribution and federation of provisioning, configuration, and content delivery.
• Streamlined content synchronization – Enables users to build systems almost abruptly after installation, at the same time, content downloads in the background.

2. Patching

• Ability to define and manage SOE – Red Hat satellite keeps a standard operating environment (SOE) through updates on security patches, updates, and enhancements.
• Automated patch – Red Hat satellite rapidly enhances system security by patching multiple systems simultaneously.
• Deployment and tracking of Red Hat software and third-party software
  All Red Hat infrastructure, along with third-party software, is deployed by retrieving these software bits through Satellite. Once Satellite acquires this content, it not only deploys it but also meticulously manages it, thereby enhancing security and ensuring precise tracking of the deployed software on each system.

3. Provisioning

• Provisioning on bare metal – Red Hat Satellite lets user to rapidly provision and update their entire bare-metal infrastructure.
• Provisioning on Red Hat Virtualization, Red Hat OpenStack® Platform, VMware, or multiple cloud providers – Red Hat Satellite enables easy creation and management instances across virtualized infrastructure or private and public cloud environments.
• Provisioning using templates – Red Hat Satellite helps develop complex Kickstart and Preboot Execution Environment (PXE) scenarios with robust variables and snippets.
• System discovery – Red Hat satellite make it possible for discovery and searching for rapid deployment across non-provisioned hosts even in environments where Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) and PXE are not available.

4. Configuration

• Remote execution – Red hat Satellite streamlines workflows and empowers users to execute multiple actions on groups of systems, such as initiating system reboots following patch installations and performing rolling upgrades across extensive sets of systems.
• Red Hat Insights integration – Red Hat insight applies advanced analytics to help detect risks, allows the creation of an Insights plan to remediate the risks and helps run Ansible Playbooks all through the same Satellite interface.
• Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform integration – With this integration, users are granted with remote execution, chosen state management, and automation of configuration management.

5. Subscription management

Subscription management – Enables users to import and manage the distribution of Red Hat software subscriptions.

Built-in reporting engine – Allows users to generate reports and map acquired products with registered systems within Red Hat Satellite for end-to-end subscription usage visibility.

Architecture 

Red Hat Satellite Server

• Ability to directly connect to Red Hat to download updates and synchronize content as well work in disconnected environment.

Red Hat Satellite Capsule Server

• Enables content distribution and federation, alongside offering localized services such as Puppet master, DHCP, Domain Name System (DNS), and Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP).
• Ease scalability of Red Hat Satellite as the number of managed systems increases in your environment.

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