Red Hat Satellite Technical Overview Training

An introduction to managing Red Hat Enterprise Linux at scale with Red Hat Satellite.

This free Technical Overview introduces the real-world challenges of managing IT environments at scale, including security, compliance, and efficiency. The on-demand video content covers the core functionalities of Red Hat Satellite, including content management, patch management, provisioning, subscription management, and remote execution. It demonstrates how Satellite helps establish a standardized, secure, and compliant Red Hat Enterprise Linux environment, whether on-premise, virtual, or in the public cloud.

There are no prerequisites for this Technical Overview.

• System administrators responsible for managing, patching, and deploying Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems
• IT managers overseeing environment compliance and subscription usage
• Operations engineers and DevOps practitioners looking to automate RHEL management at scale

• Addressing IT management challenges
• Core functional areas of Red Hat Satellite
• Satellite Server and Capsule Server architecture
• Managing content with Content Views and Lifecycle Environments
• Provisioning hosts using Host Groups and Compute Resources
• Tracking usage with Subscription Management and the Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console
• Applying patches and running jobs with Remote Execution
• Next steps and available learning resources

• Real-world IT management challenges
• What is Red Hat Satellite?
• Overview: Content, Patch, Provisioning, and Subscription Management
• Overview: Configuration Management and Integrations
• Satellite architecture: Satellite Server and Capsule Server
• Architectural scenarios: Cloud, load-balanced, and air-gapped environments
• Demo: Content Management (Repositories, Sync Plans, Content Views, Filters)
• Demo: Lifecycle Environments and Activation Keys
• Demo: Provisioning (Host Groups, Compute Resources)
• Demo: Provisioning a new host
• Demo: Subscription Management (Adding Subscriptions, Inventory Uploader)
• Demo: Viewing Subscription Usage in the Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console
• Demo: Remote Execution (Host Status, Applying Errata)
• Demo: Scheduling arbitrary remote jobs
• Further resources and training