System Management with RHN SatelliteTheme: Increased Red Hat Satellite flexibility and scaling....

System Management with Red Hat Network Satellite

Calvin Smith, Solution Architect, Red Hat

System Management with RHN Satellite

RED HAT CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE

BUSINESS DEMANDS DRIVE I.T. TRANSFORMATION

● Business wants agility, lower cost, and new capabilities.

● IT is struggling with existing legacy infrastructure architecture and cost model.

● Cloud providers are using next- generation IT built on open source technologies.

● IT needs to adopt cloud architectures and technologies to close the innovation gap.

BPD Red Hat briefing

Red Hat Satellite IDC ROI Analysis Results


Management for Red Hat Enterprise Linux

System Management Red Hat's view

Lifecycle Management: Staged Lifecycle for Systems and Software

Patch Management:

Deploy security patches and

other updates to a system

Configuration Management: Define system

and application configurations from a central

point

Provisioning: Automated installation of new or existing systems

Monitoring: Track the ongoing performance of systems


Red Hat Satellite Topology


Red Hat Satellite Topology – Larger environments

Off-Premise On-Premise

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Red Hat Satellite Roadmap Timeline

Version 5

2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018

We Are Here

Satellite6.0

Satellite5.6

Fixes & Security Updates

Version 6

2019 2020

Satellite5.7

Satellite5.x

Satellite6.1

Satellite6.x

Satellite6.y

Satellite 5 End-Of-Life

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Themes Features BenefitsExpanded reporting and troubleshooting capabilities

Enhanced subscription and system reporting

Provides incremental, in-depth details and reports of subscription consumption and hardware facts across the totality of your Red Hat deployment.

Client side crash analysis Crashes can be centrally reported to the administrator for improved awareness, analysis, and timely triage.

Increased Satellite flexibility and scaling

Automated provisioning in PXE-less environments

Automated and efficient provisioning of Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems in environments previously hostile to Satellite provisioning.

New install option: embedded database on separate system (admin-managed database)

Provides significant scaling without requiring the expertise of a DBA

Expanded install option: Additional choice for external DBA-managed database

Using a DBA-managed database for your backend? Now you have a choice beyond “just Oracle”. We now support PostgreSQL as an option as well.

Enhanced content sync & control

Inter-Satellite Sync (ISS) content management and trust refinement

Administrators of each Satellite in a synchronized exchange now have finer control over access permissions per Satellite, per Organization, and, by extension, per Channel.

Improved system availability

Red Hat Satellite server hot-backups

No longer do IT teams need to build in downtime when backing up the Satellite server. Zero downtime = more productivity and availability!

Red Hat Satellite v5.6 – Now Available

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Satellite 5.6 Themes, Feature Description & Customer Benefits

Theme: Expanded reporting and troubleshooting capabilities.

Enhanced subscription and system reporting:

Red Hat Satellite now provides incremental levels of reporting which marry existing subscription views with newer reporting capabilities across subscription consumption, hardware details and facts.

– Benefit: Provides incremental, in-depth details and reports of subscription consumption and hardware facts across the totality of your Red Hat deployment.

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Theme: Expanded reporting and troubleshooting capabilities.

Client side crash analysis:

Red Hat Satellite now supports aggregation of error and crash information via integration with the client-side reporting tool called ABRT (Automatic Bug Reporting Tool). This integration provides a centralized mechanism to collect and analyze system state information at the time of an application crash on end clients.

– Benefit: Crashes can be centrally reported to the administrator for improved awareness, analysis, and timely triage.

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Theme: Increased Red Hat Satellite flexibility and scaling.


Automated provisioning in PXE-less environments:

Cobbler buildiso support has been added to Satellite, allowing for automated provisioning in environments without a PXE option via creation of custom ISOs.

– Benefit: Automated and efficient provisioning of Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems.

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Red Hat Satellite server scalability:

Red Hat Satellite now has an installation option for deploying the Satellite admin-managed (embedded) database on a separate Red Hat Enterprise Linux system.

– Benefit: Significant scaling without requiring the expertise of a DBA.

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Choice of external, DBA-managed database:

Red Hat Satellite now offers the option of using either a PostgreSQL or Oracle database for those requiring an external DBA-managed database for scaling.

– Benefit: Freedom of choice, if an external DBA-managed database is required.

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Theme: Enhanced content synchronization and control between organizations and Red Hat Satellite servers.


Inter-Satellite Sync (ISS) Content Management and Trust Refinement:

Inter-Satellite Sync allows one Satellite instance to pull content from another Satellite instance. With this release, you now have the ability to retain and refine Channel (or repository) access permissions when synching from one Satellite to another.

– Benefit: Administrators of each Satellite in a synchronized exchange now have finer control over access permissions per Satellite, per Organization, and, by extension, per Channel.

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Theme: Improved system availability.


Red Hat Satellite server hot-backups:

The black-box embedded database back end will exchange Oracle for PostgreSQL, providing the ability to perform hot-backups when backing up the Satellite server.

– Benefit: No longer do IT teams need to build in downtime when backing up the Satellite server. Zero downtime = more productivity and enhanced availability!


Red Hat Satellite 5.6 Beta Participant Quote

"Satellite is one of the more reliable pieces of software we've deployed and seems indispensable for setups with a large number of RHEL servers. The 5.6 release looks fantastic; the long awaited switch to PostgreSQL not only demonstrates Red Hat's commitment to open source, but also brings in practical benefits like hot backups & being able to almost effortlessly split the DB load onto a separate machine. It also provides a comprehensive view of all software crashes and links related crashes occurring on multiple servers. This feature should prove to be extremely useful in detecting possible issues or regressions. I am really looking forward to seeing Satellite 5.6 in action."

Rizvi Rahim,Senior Solutions ArchitectIntegra Technologies FZEUnited Arab Emirates

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Next generation Red Hat Enterprise Linux management - Red Hat Satellite 6


HyperscaleProviding systems management 'at scale',providing capabilities at increasing orders of magnitude


CloudAbstracting resources while maintaining compliance, just-in-time workloads, governance driven placement across hybrid clouds


DevOpsProviding IT with the right tools & meeting demands such as self-service, flexible life cycle, service catalogs & more

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Red Hat Satellite 6Based on heavily used & tested open source projects

Most projects 2-4 years old (Puppet is 9+)

Notable Fortune 500 + Red Hat IT users

100s, even 1000s of deployments

Scalability – Notable 60k Foreman host installation

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Red Hat Satellite 5 & 6 Core Capabilities

Provision 10s – 1000s systems

Configuration Management

Automated Software Distribution

Lifecycle Management

Administrator Dashboard

Provision 10s – 10,000+ systems

Recipe-Style Configuration Management

Automated Software Distribution

Refined Lifecycle Management

Modern Administrator Dashboards

Simplified Content Management

Drift Management

Federated Services & Management

Deploy on VMware, RHEV, EC2, and OpenStack

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New UI

Content Management


New Subscription Management

Project: Candlepinhttp://www.candlepinproject.org

● Products not Channels● Per system tracked:

Product + Pricing + Support Levels● Identity driven all the way to the resource

– x509 Certificate Based

● System Inventory● Per system expiration tracking


New Content Engine

Project: Pulphttps://pulpproject.org/

● Ultimately any content (caveats galore)– Fast fetch from Red Hat and any CDN

– Products and repos, not channels

– Yum-my!

● Filters instead of cloned channels


New Configuration Engine

Project: Puppethttp://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/puppet

● Extremely versatile configuration and scripting● No-op validation of managed systems● Configuration drift? No problem --> Reapply


New Build Based Provisioning Engine

Project: The Foremanhttp://theforeman.org/

● Intimate integration with puppet● DB for Persistence (improved scaling and reporting)● Centralized Reporting - overview of your entire

infrastructure, not just a single subnet/location etc● Manage different pxe/dns/dhcp servers across different

subnets● Currently supports vmware, rhev, kvm, xen, amazon

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For More Information...

Red Hat Satellite 5.6 (available now!)

● Satellite 5.6 In Less than Four Minutes

● Satellite 5.6 What's New Launch Webcast

Red Hat Satellite 6.0 (coming soon!)

● Check out the agenda and important dates!

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