Thanks for the clarification. I was going off of this: <http://www.redhat.com/summit/2011/presentations/summit/whats_next/thursday/summit-2011.warner_sanders_t_1400_future_of_satellite-v5.pdf>
I went back and re-read it slower and saw the references to CloudForms. I have seen multiple references to combining puppet and cobbler. When I saw the referenced document describe Foreman as "Cobbler on steroids", I made my own conclusions. “Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.” Bill Waterson (Calvin & Hobbes) ----- Cliff Perry <[email protected]> wrote: > On 07/06/2011 07:36 AM, Tom Brown wrote: > >> Given that RedHat Satellite is planning to use Foreman and Puppet, > >> is there any available information about implementing them in together > >> Spacewalk ? > >> > > I'd like to correct this statement. > > Red Hat is not planning to have Satellite use Foreman and Puppet. > > Red Hat is planning on having CloudForms use Foreman and Puppet. > > As such, there is nothing implementing them together in Spacewalk. > > Right now the 'glue' for Puppet and Foreman is built into Foreman's own > support today. We will build on top of this into the Katello project - > http://katello.org/ . Today Katello provides integration with Pulp > (content) and Candlepin (Entitlement). The Katello project is still in > progress and changing rapidly. Katello will be the upstream for the > WebUI & API within the CloudForms System Engine component of CloudForms. > > > >> All I see in the lists and docs talks about Cobbler as opposed to Foreman. > > > > and .... What happens to spacewalk when Satellite moves over to System > > Engine? > > Satellite does not move over to CloudForms (*). To quote what I wrote in > a reply on spacewalk-devel list in early May 2011: > > " Red Hat is committed to continue to sponsor Spacewalk. Red Hat will > continue to be actively involved in Spacewalk, contributing code > upstream, as RHN Satellite today continues to be Red Hat's primary > systems management solution for managing the life cycle of Red Hat > Enterprise Linux for traditional data centers. Over time our > contributions though will go down as we approach the End of Life for > Satellite 5.x for our customers. " > > Regards, > Cliff > > * CloudForms is the product name. CloudForms System Engine is a > subcomponent of CloudForms which provides System Management aspects, > similar to today's Satellite product. > - CloudForms Cloud Engine - Manage and do things with cloud > - CloudForms Application Engine - Define and build complex images for > applications to deploy into your cloud. > - CloudForms Systems Engine - Manage your systems running in Cloud as > well as traditional Systems Management aspects of your environment. > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Spacewalk-list mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list > > _______________________________________________ > Spacewalk-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list _______________________________________________ Spacewalk-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list
