What is Red Hat Satellite Capsule ?

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Environment

  • Red Hat Satellite 6
  • Red Hat Capsule 6

Issue

  • Is Capsule a codename for Satellite 6?
  • What is Red Hat Satellite Capsule ?

Resolution

  • With Capsule Servers, you can extend the reach and scalability of your Satellite deployment.
  • Capsule Servers provide the functionality of mirroring content from Satellite Server to establish content sources in various geographical or logical locations. By registering a host to a Capsule Server, you can configure this host to receive content and configuration from the Capsule in their location instead of from the central Satellite Server.
  • The Red Hat Satellite Capsule Server is a Satellite component that provides federated services to discover, provision, and configure hosts outside of the primary Red Hat Satellite 6 server. A Satellite Capsule Server provides the following features:

Feature A:
Pulp Server features, including:
- Repository synchronization
- Content delivery
- Puppet Master server
- Puppet CA to manage certificate signing and cleaning
- Discovery

Feature B:
Red Hat Satellite Provisioning Smart Proxy features, including:
- DHCP, including ISC DHCP servers
- DNS, including Bind and MS DNS servers
- Any UNIX-based TFTP server

  • Depending upon the feature Red Hat Satellite Capsule can be used in 2 ways:

    1) Red Hat Satellite Capsule Server as a Content Node ------> provides only feature A
    2)Red Hat Satellite Capsule Server as a Content Node with Smart Proxy ------> provides feature A & B

  • For more details on the same refer: 4.3. Capsule overview

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