[Spacewalk-list] Which version of Spacewalk is the same as Redhat Satellite 6?

[Kobus Bensch]

Hi

Beg to differ on the config management. It is great with it. You just need to know how. Does macros, templates the lot.

Kobus Bensch


> On 27 Jan 2017, at 16:24, Konstantin Raskoshnyi <konrasko at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> With all respect to spacewalk - it's a great product, but not for config management. Maximum for static templates.  
> But it's a good soft for package updates, ks and revision of your machines. 
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 2:00 AM Kobus Bensch <kobus at giffgaff.co.uk <mailto:kobus at giffgaff.co.uk>> wrote:
> As far as spacewalk is concerned, you can have a FULL configuration management system with templates, variables and machine specific setup just like what puppet, cfengine, chef or sensible will give you. You just need to know how. I managed 460 servers in this way with spacewalk.
> 
> 
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> > On 27 Jan 2017, at 02:04, Paul Robert Marino <prmarino1 at gmail.com <mailto:prmarino1 at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> > Just so you know its also the upstream project for SUSE Manager, and
> > Oracle supports it as well.
> > the new satellite 6 code base, and SAM are nice implementations of the
> > technologies mentioned above, but is philosophically not just
> > technologically different especially when it comes to configuration
> > management.
> >
> > Also after a certain version in the Satellite 5 series they started
> > including https://github.com/splice/spacewalk-splice-tool <https://github.com/splice/spacewalk-splice-tool> in RHN
> > satellite 5 to sync it with SAM (Subscription Asset Manager). SAM is
> > registration and package repo proxy for access.redhat.com <http://access.redhat.com/> based on the
> > satellite 6 code, its free with RHEL support but doesn't include
> > configuration management, or provisioning, and only supports
> > rudimentary package management on its own.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 7:36 PM, Daniel Swan <swan_daniel at hotmail.com <mailto:swan_daniel at hotmail.com>> wrote:
> >> On a related note, does anyone have a list of which Spacewalk versions
> >> (Roughly) correlate to which (non-6)  Satellite versions?
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