Red Hat Satellite 6 Administration

Configure Red Hat Satellite 6 to deploy and manage Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems and software at any scale. Successfully manage large-scale Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® systems with Red Hat Satellite. This lab-based will demonstrate how to manage the software development life cycle of a subscribed host and its configuration, and to provision hosts integrated with software and Ansible configuration management upon deployment. This course is based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 and Red Hat Satellite 6.11.

Who Can Benefit

• Senior Red Hat Enterprise Linux system administrators responsible for the management of multiple servers and hybrid cloud enterprises up to a very large scale

Skills Gained

• Verifying a Red Hat Satellite 6.11 installation.
• Regulating Red Hat Satellite with organizations, locations, users and roles.
• Managing software with Red Hat Satellite environments and content views.
• Using Red Hat Satellite to configure hosts with Ansible playbooks and roles.
• Provisioning hosts with integrated software and configuration management.
• Implementing Metal-as-a-Service (MaaS) with Satellite discovery and provisioning of unprovisioned hosts.

Prerequisites

• Take our free assessment to gauge whether this offering is the best fit for your skills.
• Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) certification, or equivalent experience
• Candidates are recommended but not required to have familiarity with Red Hat Satellite 6
• For candidates that have not earned an RHCE or equivalent, confirmation of the correct skill set knowledge can be obtained by taking the online skills assessment at http://www.redhat.com/training/skills_assessment/

Course Content

Outline for this course

• Plan and deploy Red Hat Satellite
• Manage software life cycles
• Register hosts
• Deploy software to hosts
• Deploy custom software
• Deploy Satellite capsule servers
• Run Remote Execution
• Prepare Network Resources for Host Provisioning
• Provision Hosts
• Manage Red Hat Satellite with the API
• Deploy Red Hat Satellite on a Cloud Platform
• Maintain Red Hat Satellite Server
• Comprehensive review

Red Hat Satellite organization

• Effectively control user access for Red Hat Satellite administration.

Red Hat Satellite client registration

• Register hosts to a Red Hat Satellite server, both interactively and automatically.

Incorporate software management into SDLC

• Control which packages hosts can install and which updates are propagated to hosts. Evaluate host deviations from corporate standards.

Deploy custom software using Red Hat Satellite

• Incorporate non-Red Hat software packages into a Red Hat Satellite framework.

Configuration management with Puppet

• Create and populate a Puppet repository within a Red Hat Satellite framework.

Centralized management and deployment of system configurations

• Configure hosts using Puppet.