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- In this video, we'll go through the basic concepts
and primary use cases for Red Hat Satellite.
Let's start with the basic elevator pitch for Satellite,
which is: Red Hat Satellite is a scalable platform
to manage patching, provisioning, and subscription management
of your Red Hat infrastructure.
Red Hat Satellite is part
of the Red Hat Management Business Unit,
which has the benefit of strong integrations
with other management technologies,
like Red Hat Insights and Red Hat Ansible.
Satellite's part of a collective
management technologies group,
so all of our product, engineering, QE, and support teams
are well integrated and focused on collaboration.
Satellite enables you to manage more than just RHEL.
It provides lifecycle management
across your Red Hat infrastructure.
For example, Satellite can be used to deploy
RHV hypervisors and configure them.
If you're only using Red Hat Enterprise Linux today,
as you adopt more Red Hat infrastructure,
you'll want to bring those same
process lifecycle managements into newer platforms.
Based on many years of customer feedback,
we've simplified the workflows
based on the most common patterns of use,
to streamline the user experience within Satellite.
Satellite is also built to scale,
using Satellite capsule servers,
which we'll talk about more in just a few moments.
Satellite leverages existing resources,
including many services such as
active directory, LDAP, identity management,
as well as services for provisioning
and configuration, in a variety of hypervisors.
Like VMware, RHV, and OpenStack.
And Satellite also simplifies configuration
from initial provisioning,
until you eventually retire a host.
Drift and system configuration
provides the ability to detect, report,
and remediate changes
back to a defined state of managed systems.
As mentioned, Satellite is a scalable platform
to manage your patching, provisioning,
and subscription management of your Red Hat infrastructure.
On screen you see the Satellite code of arms,
which, in the center, captures
the four primary use cases for Satellite.
Patching and software management simplifies the process
of managing hundreds or even thousands of systems,
enabling you to easily patch security vulnerabilities,
or deploy custom packages to your content hosts.
Subscriptions can easily be managed and tracked
across your enterprise,
using Satellite subscription management.
Provisioning of servers can be simplified using profiles.
And new hosts can be quickly discovered,
reducing the overall time that it takes
to provision new systems.
And centralized configuration management
can be used to detect and remediate drift,
and enable a standard operating environment.
Satellite also has many additional capabilities,
such as integration with Red Hat Insights
for predictive analytics,
and security compliance through OpenSCAP.
There are two primary components for Satellite
that you need to be aware of
when you're planning a deployment.
The Satellite server synchronizes the content
from the Red Hat Customer Portal,
and provides lifecycle management,
role-based access control, GUI, CLI, API access,
and integrated subscription management.
The Satellite capsule server mirrors content
from the Satellite server.
That helps you facilitate content federation
across geographical locations.
So host systems can pull content
from the local geo-located capsule server
instead of from the Satellite server.
Many things done by the Satellite server
can also be done with the capsule.
You can see the list of them
on the right hand side of your screen.
The important thing to note
is that the capsules help your Satellite environment scale.
So as you continue to add capsule servers
and geographical locations,
your Satellite can handle more and more hosts
without your services being impacted.
Let's talk a little bit
about a typical Satellite 6 deployment.
In the center here, you have the Red Hat Satellite server.
This is probably in your primary data center.
The Satellite server is connected to several capsules,
each located in a different region.
This could be a remote data center or a branch office.
The Satellite server is seeded
by several content sources,
which are then synchronized to the capsule servers.
So if you're using the Red Hat Portal,
or some sort of third party repo,
you pull that down to your Satellite server,
and then your Satellite server
gives the content out to the capsules.
Ideally, your hosts are connected to the capsules,
the capsules are connected to the Satellite,
and the Satellite is connected to your content sources.
And that's how your content will flow.
Users can access Satellite
via the GUI, the CLI, or the API.
Using role-based access control,
users are able to access one or more organizations
based on their RBAC setting,
which enables multi-tenant operations.
Satellite also connects to Red Hat Insights
to enable you to see predictive analytics
and prevent problems in your environment before they occur.
Next we'll jump into a Satellite lab environment,
and I'll show you a brief overview
of what the interface looks like,
as well as how to see connected capsules and hosts.
For this demo, I'm using Red Hat Satellite 6.4.
I've logged into the environment,
and I start in the dashboard.
You have a variety of organizations.
I'm using the example.com organizations.
And, potentially, you have a variety of locations.
This could be Raleigh, Singapore, Boston,
whatever your local location is.
We just talked about some of the layouts,
so I'm gonna show you the capsules first of all.
So if I go to "Infrastructure",
and then "Capsules",
you'll see that I currently have just one capsule listed,
which is the Satellite itself.
As I go to scale out this environment,
I would add additional capsules in different locations
to help scale my Satellite.
If I go to "Hosts", "All hosts",
we can see the hosts
that are currently configured in this environment.
Right now I have five of them.
This is a cloud-based environment,
so it is kind of a smaller scale.
But the concepts that you'll learn in these videos
are true whether it's five hosts, 500 hosts, or 5,000 hosts.
That concludes this section.
We'll see you in the next video.