Managing enterprise-scale Red Hat deployments requires centralised control, automation, and compliance. This course teaches participants how to use Red Hat Satellite 6 to provision, configure, and manage systems across hybrid environments, ensuring consistency and control across hundreds or thousands of nodes.
Learning Outcomes:
Deploy and configure Red Hat Satellite 6 infrastructure
Manage system lifecycles with provisioning and patching workflows
Implement content views, activation keys, and host groups
Automate configuration with Puppet and templates
Enforce compliance and audit system states at scale
Key Topics:
Red Hat Satellite architecture and installation
Lifecycle environments and content management
Provisioning workflows and host onboarding
Puppet automation and configuration templating
Compliance reporting and subscription management
Plan and deploy Red Hat Satellite
Plan a Red Hat Satellite deployment, then perform installation and initial configuration of Red Hat Satellite servers.
Manage software life cycles
Create and manage Red Hat software deployment life cycle environments.
Register hosts
Register and configure your Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems to use Red Hat Satellite, then organize those systems into groups for easier management.
Deploy software to hosts
Manage software deployment to registered hosts of your Red Hat Satellite infrastructure and practice managing environment paths, life cycle environments, and content views.
Deploy custom software
Create, manage, and deploy custom software products and repositories.
Deploy Satellite capsule servers
Perform installation and initial configuration of Red Hat Satellite capsule servers as components of a deployment plan.
Run remote execution commands
Configure the ability to run ad hoc and scheduled tasks on managed hosts using a variety of configuration management tools.
Prepare network resources for host provisioning
Configure Satellite Server for host provisioning.
Provision hosts
Configure Satellite server for host deployment and perform host provisioning.
Manage Red Hat Satellite using the API
Integrate Red Hat Satellite functionality with custom scripts or external applications that access the API over HTTP.
Deploy Red Hat Satellite on a cloud platform
Plan a Red Hat Satellite deployment on a cloud platform, including managed content hosts.
Perform Red Hat Satellite server maintenance
Manage Red Hat Satellite for security, recoverability, and growth.
Comprehensive review
Verify and configure a Red Hat Satellite Server installation and provision content hosts.
Note: Course outline is subject to change with technology advances and as the nature of the underlying job evolves.