Introduction and Installation | Up and Running with Red Hat Satellite 01

This is where our Satellite miniseries begins. I’m joined by my friend and solutions architect Richard Rios, who has been working with this tooling since the Spacewalk days, and together we take an entire episode just to get a Red Hat Satellite server installed and running. The goal for the whole series is simple: get you past the “it’s installed, now what?” hurdle and into actually doing useful work.

A few things worth carrying away from this one:

• Installation deserves its own episode. I wanted to show the real thing, so we did the install live on the air. It took the full session, but seeing the disk layout, the prerequisites, and the setup end to end is far more useful than a slide that says “installed.”
• Satellite has come a long way. Richard’s been at this since version 5, back when it was Spacewalk, and the maturity of today’s Satellite is a different world. If your mental model is old, this is a good reset.
• Have a plan before you type. Getting Satellite stood up is mostly about getting the fundamentals right first, so I walk through the pieces I check before kicking off the installer.

If you’ve ever logged into a fresh console and wondered what to do next, this series is built for you. Stick around for the rest.