Foreman has a bunch of plugins but none of them can be compared to Katello, a plugin that is so big, so big, that it changes the way you install and configure Foreman.

Katello is a “plugin” to manage CentOS and RedHat repositories, mirroring content and managing updates and erratas. This is called content management.

In fact, Satellite is the paid and suported version of Foreman/Katello by RedHat, but it suports only RedHat systems while the upstream Foreman/Katello suports both RedHat and CentOS.

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The Foreman is a great tool. It´s a complete lifecycle manager for physical, virtual and cloud servers.

It does configuration management and orchestration with Puppet, Chef, Salt and Ansible.

It does server provisioning on almost all of the cloud providers, virtualization solutions and even bare metal.

When combined with the Katello plugin, it becomes what RedHat sells as RedHat Satellite 6, a complete system to manage updates, erratas, security patches and compliance and provisioning of Linux systems.

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Let´s install The Foreman with the Katello plugin.

Proceed only if you have your lab up and running and will start with Foreman now.

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