On 18 June 2020, Dana Singleterry of Red Hat Product Management gave the following presentation to the Foreman Community, discussing Red Hat Satellite 7 and 6.8. There are big caveats in the presentation in terms of roadmap plans and dates being subject to change, but as a Red Hat Satellite user you’ll find some of […]
Ansible is a fantastic tool for automating your environment. The thousands of modules that are available, comprehensive documentation and low barrier of entry have seen it rise to prominence in the enterprise. As with any new tool, everyone soon learns of it’s power and wants to take advantage of it. Limitations The enterprise IT environment […]
Since it’s initial release in 2010, systemd has found it’s way into the majority of Linux distributions and introduced a standard way of configuring and managing services. RHEL 8 includes systemd version 239 and introduced many new features such as: Unprivileged unit files Dynamic users Improvements to systemctl and journalctl Resource management with cgroup v2 […]
This is a sample playbook which can be used to apply patches to a server and perform a reboot if one is required. This makes use of the handy needs-restarting command from the yum-utils / dnf-utils packages. The vars listed here are suggestions and can be updated to suit the requirements of your environment. For […]
Red Hat Satellite 6.6 was released on 22 October 2019. The official release notes for the release can be found here. Time to upgrade? I recently upgraded a server from Satellite 6.5.3 to 6.6.2 and thought it was worth sharing some tips in case others find this useful. If you are currently on an older […]
I recently needed to bring up a temporary RHEL 8 VM on my laptop so that I could do some testing. My laptop dual boots Fedora and RHEL and makes use of the free Red Hat Developer Subscription. In this instance I am doing all my work from that RHEL installation (RHEL 8 makes for […]
Following on from the successful RHEL8 on a ThinkPad P1, Fedora 29 on a ThinkPad P1 and Fedora 30 on a ThinkPad P1 installations I thought I would do a quick post on installing Fedora 32 on the ThinkPad P1. Before we begin, a couple of Fedora 32 resources which may be useful: Fedora 32 […]
I am currently doing a lot of work with Ansible, AWX, Ansible Tower and Red Hat Satellite to automate and manage a RHEL 6, RHEL 7 and RHEL 8 environment. During that time I bookmarked a number of useful resources and have shared them on this page along with my notes. How to use existing […]
Update: May 2020. If you’re already on Satellite 6.5 and looking to upgrade to Satellite 6.6, see Tips for a Successful Red Hat Satellite 6.6 Upgrade. Red Hat Satellite 6.5 was released just after Red Hat Summit on 14 May 2019. The official blog post for the release can be found here. Time to upgrade? […]
Satellite 6.5 introduces a brand new feature – the Satellite Reporting engine. The default reports shipping with this release are: Applicable errata (are my servers up to date with patches?) Host Statuses Registered Hosts (IP Addresses of hosts, O/S versions, Subscriptions, etc) Subscriptions As a result, these are a very good starting point on which […]