Hi Brian, The benefits of using Katello/TFM to provision and manage hosts include full lifecycle management. From a content (RPM) point of view what that means to me is the ability to maintain a consistent version number of all installed software in a given environment and to ensure those versions are baked before they progress to the next environment.
For example, without content management if you build two production servers days apart they may have different versions of OpenSSL, the kernel, etc. With Katello you choose when packages are made available to logical groupings of systems. If all you want to do is manage content and not use the configuration management or provisioning features Katello/TFM may be overkill. IMO, though, standing it up may help open doors that seemed like stretch goals in the past. TFM integrates with many other platforms (VMware, libvirt, ovirt, FreeIPA/RH IDM, etc) and can stand up a Puppet infrastructure for you (or integrate with an existing). It currently has basic remote execution capabilities as well. HTH, j From: "Brian Long" <[email protected]> To: "Foreman Users" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2017 10:55:09 AM Subject: [foreman-users] RPM management recommendations I'm a new user of TheForeman and Puppet and I'm trying to determine that best course of action to keep my systems up to date. The systems are a mix of RHEL and CentOS. The RHEL systems use an internal private mirror (not Satellite) for updates and the CentOS systems also use a private mirror. Is deploying Katello the recommended method to keep RHEL and CentOS systems up-to-date? Or is there a simple Puppet module I could install if I only wanted to push certain RPMs to my hosts? For example, if I just wanted to push the latest flash-plugin to my hosts (where it's already installed), I assume I could use the Puppet module (https://forge.puppet.com/puppet/yum) or I could install Katello, configure it, etc. Could you help me understand the pros and cons of using one or the other? Thanks. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Foreman users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [ mailto:[email protected] | [email protected] ] . To post to this group, send email to [ mailto:[email protected] | [email protected] ] . Visit this group at [ https://groups.google.com/group/foreman-users | https://groups.google.com/group/foreman-users ] . For more options, visit [ https://groups.google.com/d/optout | https://groups.google.com/d/optout ] . -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Foreman users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/foreman-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
