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 […]
When running Veritas Storage Foundation or Infoscale on RHEL, it is best practice to review the compatibility requirements that link the Veritas products and patches to the version of RHEL you are running. Certainly there are growing pressures in all enterprises to apply the latest Operating System patches to the environment. However, running a simple […]
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Update 1/May/2020: you might also be interested in Fedora 32 on a ThinkPad P1 (Fedora 32 works very well without the Nvidia drivers, plus I’ve added some tips on cooling) Following on from the successful RHEL8 on a ThinkPad P1 and Fedora 29 on a ThinkPad P1 installations I thought I would do a quick post on […]
Updated 28/May/2020 – Added the Spacewalk 2.9 and 2.10 client repositories! Updated 18/May/2020 – Added the Centos 8 and EPEL links! Red Hat announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 (RHEL 8) at Red Hat Summit on 7 May 2019. The following page attempts to bookmark RHEL 8 resources that might be […]
Last week Red Hat gave Satellite administrators a Valentine’s Day treat by releasing Satellite 6.4.2 on 14 February 2019. The official blog post for the release can be found here. Time to upgrade? I recently upgraded a server from Satellite 6.3.5 to 6.4.2 and thought it was worth sharing some tips in case others find […]
About 10 days ago I was lucky enough to attend the OpenShift Commons Gathering at Savoy Place in London. I’m familiar with RHEL and many of the other Red Hat products, however OpenShift is still relatively new to me. OpenShift 4 is due to become Generally Available (GA) in March or April, therefore, it was […]
Awesome post covering the Kubernetes scheduler in some detail: https://t.co/hMZxqyp0tT — robb manes (@robbmanes) December 28, 2018