On Wed, Feb 06, 2013 at 12:30:19PM -0500, Edson Manners wrote:
> All,
>         I've been working on setting up  our High Performance
> Computing (HPC) shop for full Satellite/puppet baremetal
> provisioning. Since we only have one satellite license I did all of
> my intial testing on spacewalk using centos and quickly got my
> kickstarted machines registered in the spacewalk server and handed
> off  to puppet.
> 
>     With the proof of concept in place I've started to do the same
> in RH Satellite 5.5. however it seems like the version of cobbler
> that Satellite 5.5 needs does not play well with puppet.
> Specifically cobbler < 2.1 does not support the puppet stanza
> "remove_old_puppet_certs_automatically".
> 
> This made me start looking around online for a newer version of
> satellite or anyone who got the actual RH Satellite to work with
> puppet. This is where I found RH Cloud Forms. So my question for the
> spacewalk devels is this, if Spacewalk supports puppet integration
> and satellite does not, and cloud forms is a total rewrite of a RH
> systems management solution. How does the work being done in
> spacewalk get ported into satellite? And more generally then what is

All recent Satellite release is a rebase on some Spacewalk version.
However, due to some issues with cobbler, the cobbler version stays
on 2.0 in Satellite. I suggest you talk to your Red Hat support
representative about the remove_old_puppet_certs_automatically issue
so that it can be tracked by Satellite product management properly.

-- 
Jan Pazdziora
Principal Software Engineer, Satellite Engineering, Red Hat

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