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.
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.
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
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/
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.