If you don't need a full blown Katello installation, you could look at using a Pulp (and the consumer client if you desire) standalone installation which is what we do.
On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 8:15 AM, 'Jason B. Nance' via Foreman users < [email protected]> wrote: > 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 [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. > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
