[Spacewalk-list] Which version of Spacewalk is the same as Redhat Satellite 6?

Kobus Bensch kobus at giffgaff.co.uk
Fri Jan 27 09:54:01 UTC 2017


As far as spacewalk is concerned, you can have a FULL configuration management system with templates, variables and machine specific setup just like what puppet, cfengine, chef or sensible will give you. You just need to know how. I managed 460 servers in this way with spacewalk.



> On 27 Jan 2017, at 02:04, Paul Robert Marino <prmarino1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Just so you know its also the upstream project for SUSE Manager, and
> Oracle supports it as well.
> the new satellite 6 code base, and SAM are nice implementations of the
> technologies mentioned above, but is philosophically not just
> technologically different especially when it comes to configuration
> management.
> 
> Also after a certain version in the Satellite 5 series they started
> including https://github.com/splice/spacewalk-splice-tool in RHN
> satellite 5 to sync it with SAM (Subscription Asset Manager). SAM is
> registration and package repo proxy for access.redhat.com based on the
> satellite 6 code, its free with RHEL support but doesn't include
> configuration management, or provisioning, and only supports
> rudimentary package management on its own.
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 7:36 PM, Daniel Swan <swan_daniel at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> On a related note, does anyone have a list of which Spacewalk versions
>> (Roughly) correlate to which (non-6)  Satellite versions?
>> 
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