Red Hat Satellite 6.16 is now available

We are excited to announce the GA release of Red Hat Satellite 6.16. Red Hat Satellite (Satellite) continues to offer a comprehensive and reliable way to manage Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) environments. Our solution for RHEL customers stands out in the market, offering unique management capabilities. Enhanced by integrations with Red Hat Insights and the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Red Hat Satellite provides automated identification and swift correction of compliance issues, misconfigurations, and security risks.

The release of Satellite 6.16 includes a number of new and updated features to help organizations streamline management and automation, along with continued improvements in performance and user experience.  Satellite 6.16 ships with a number of features in support of Red Hat Enterprise Linux management including:

• RHEL 9 as Base OS
  • Satellite can be installed on both RHEL 8 and RHEL 9
• Simple Content Access  is the only way to consume content
• Online Backups
  • No need to stop Satellite while making backup
  • Only services that affect consistency are shut down - Satellite remains operational and jobs are queued
• Container Push
  • Satellite provides a full container registry capability following the OCI specifications
  • No need to always sync from an upstream container registry
• All Hosts Menu UI Improvements
  • Bulk actions support straight from the menu
  • Install, Remove, Upgrade packages
  • Perform single-host actions such as Edit, Clone, Delete and Change Content view
  • If you’d like to try this feature out, you may do so in our Satellite Basics interactive lab by clicking here.
• Easier compliance remediations
  • Running a playbook straight from the OpenSCAP reports
• Upgrades and Improvements
  • Postgresql 13
  • Puppet server 8

To review the full list of new and improved features, please review the Satellite 6.16 release notes on the Customer Portal. 

Note:

• With the release of Satellite 6.16, Satellite 6.13 will go end-of-life on 30th of November, 2024. See the Product Life Cycle page for details.
• Satellite 6.16 supports only SCA

PROGRAM RESOURCES:

• Satellite 6.16 Documentation
• Satellite 6.16 Customer Portal announcement

QUESTIONS OR CONCERNS?: Reach out to us!

satellite@redhat.com