[CentOS] Satellite 6

Wed Jul 22 18:53:43 UTC 2015
Thomas Eriksson <thomas.eriksson at slac.stanford.edu>

On 07/22/2015 11:46 AM, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote:
> On 2015-07-22 13:34, Thomas Eriksson wrote:
>> The upstream project is called Katello, http://www.katello.org/
>> It has nothing to do with Spacewalk as far as I can tell.
> 
> Katello is just one piece. Satellite 6 also integrates Candlepin, Puppet
> and more. What I'm wondering is if the entire set of software -
> Satellite 6 as one piece - is going to get a new upstream project.

The Katello project is the whole thing. During installation it pulls in
Foreman, Candlepin, Pulp, Puppet and more.

> 
>> I have been tinkering with it a bit for a while and it's not too bad.
>> It still has some maturing to do, at the moment it's fragile and much
>> too easy to break. It needs a lot more horsepower to run than
>> Spacewalk, both I/O and CPU.
> 
> We're moving to Sat 6 at work. So far it looks pretty neat, but there
> are some bugs that hit our test system hard. They're still not resolved.
>