(This blog was first published on LinkedIn.)

Here's something I'm a little bit proud of: I have written an actual feature for Satellite 6, and that feature was merged today!

As you might know, Satellite 6's upstream is in a combination of multiple products, most notably Katello and Foreman. There …

In my daily work as a solutions architect for Red Hat, I regularly talk about Satellite 6 and explain to people how activation keys work, and how to best assign subscriptions to newly created virtual or physical machines.

Setting up activation keys is not rocket science, but I have learned …

At Red Hat, one of the subscription types we offer is the "virtual datacenter subscription", or VDC. A VDC offers our customers a way to run an unlimited amount of RHEL VMs on a supported hypervisor¹. A requirement to run an unlimited amount of VMs on a hypervisor, is …

Today I want to talk about connecting Satellite 6 and Ansible Tower. There are two main benefits you can get right now from connecting Satellite 6 and Ansible Tower if you use both.

Sharing inventory data

First of all, if you share inventory data, you share hostnames and IP addresses …

With the release of Ansible Tower 3.1 a short while back, it became possible to setup Ansible Tower in a highly available, active-active topology. You do this by setting up multiple Tower nodes that talk to a shared PostgreSQL database on a separate node. This database can be setup …

After I presented at Summit last Summer, I starting getting frequent questions around how to setup a dedicated Puppet content view in Satellite 6.

Using a dedicated Puppet content view can be useful for your organization if you are doing intensive development on your Puppet code base. This usually applies …

We have been talking about content views in the previous posts, but to be sure we are all on the same page: a content view is a versioned, filtered set of repositories that you can promote between lifecycle environments. We have been talking about 'normal' content views, or CV, up …

The other day, I was talking to a customer about Satellite updates regarding the recently released Satellite 6.2.7 update. He and his co-workers were a little anxious about updating their Satellite server, as it is a quite vital piece of their infrastructure.

I explained the simple upgrade procedure …

Today's video is about advanced content filtering in Satellite 6. As you probably know, Satellite 6 allows you to filter any repositories it serves out to your clients. These filtered repositories we call 'content views'. If you are unfamiliar with that, I suggest you go take a look at last …