[Spacewalk-list] Relationship between Katello and Spacewalk

[Snyder, Chris]

That explains the future of Red Hat's Satellite, but this doesn't really answer the question regarding Spacewalk.  Katello, et al, is a completely different beast than Spacewalk as far as I understand.  So does that mean that Spacewalk is going to continue as is, or will it be end of life'd, or will it be completely re-written to parallel Katello?

As far as I can tell, Spacewalk as we know it is a dead end.  If RH is going to push Katello in the future, then there's no reason for them to support Spacewalk as it currently stands, and they provide a rather large amount of support for this product.  I'm sure the non-RH SW community will continue support, but will it be worth it?    I mean, most companies and admins will probably jump ship to Katello once RH moves to that completely, so SW usage will start to drop.  I guess SW will have a purpose as long as RH continues to use/support Satellite 5.x, but once that's over, I really think Spacewalk will be dead.

Call me pessimistic, but I don't see a future for Spacewalk, not if RH is going to push Katello as the new way forward. 

Anybody care to give a differing opinion or correct any flaws in my understanding?  Please?!

Thx
Gopher.

-----Original Message-----
From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Cliff Perry
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2014 5:36 PM
To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Relationship between Katello and Spacewalk

In short

Spacewalk (+ Cobbler)
  = Red Hat Satellite 5.x

Katello + TheForeman + Puppet + Candlepin + pulp
  = Red Hat Satellite 6.x

I have to be careful on with what I say - public traded company and all. 
The overview of Satellite 6 was listed in last years Summit. During Red 
Hat Summit ( https://www.redhat.com/summit ), next month there will be 
updated presentations on roadmap, releases, etc. Typically the 
presentations used will be made available within a week after Summit is 
complete.

Last years presentations are still available here:
http://www.redhat.com/summit/2013/presentations/

One of interest would be:

Using Red Hat Satellite Today & Into the Future
  - http://rhsummit.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/caplan_rhsatellite.pdf

Regards,
Cliff



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