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Red Hat Satellite

Score9.7 out of 10

21 Reviews and Ratings

What is Red Hat Satellite?

Red Hat® Satellite is an infrastructure management product specifically designed to keep Red Hat Enterprise Linux® environments and other Red Hat infrastructure running efficiently, with security, and compliant with various standards.

Categories & Use Cases

Extremely good at what it does

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have several servers that require we stagger patching schedules as well as hold packages back and test. All this has to be done with no direct internet connection. Red Hat Satellite allows us this flexibility and more. It's truly been a wonderful thing for our environment.

Pros

  • Patch Staging
  • Customized Software Repositories
  • Version Control of Repositories

Cons

  • I woud love for it to provide the same functionality for non-RHEL OS's
  • Containerized Installation
  • Simplified workflow setup

Return on Investment

  • We have been able to automate the update process to not require after-hours monitoring.
  • Centralizing updates has greatly reduced the overall time servers are down and processing their individual updates.
  • We are able to bring our own RPM packages in and stage them in the same deployment model as official Red Hat packages.

Usability

Other Software Used

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Red Hat OpenShift, Kubuntu

My Red Hat Satellite Review

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it to manage patches, etc. on internal servers that are not directly attached to the internet. We also use it to ensure that every server in those various clusters get the exact same patches and versions, etc. This allows us to ensure that the servers are as identical as possible.

Pros

  • Patches
  • License Management
  • Dashboards / Visibility

Cons

  • Some things are confusing for new users of the platform
  • More dashboards
  • A more user friendly GUI

Return on Investment

  • Flexibility
  • Visibility
  • Security Awareness

Usability

Other Software Used

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Azure Red Hat OpenShift, Red Hat OpenShift, Fedora Linux, CentOS Linux, CentOS Stream