[Edit- mrepo tutorial has been posted. See here…]

Okay, a Primer, first.

Spacewalk is an open-sourced software suite for maintaining a number of Red Hat based servers. The Commercial version is Red Hat’s Satellite Server. SatServer has a few more bells and whistles, and the added benefit of support from the big Red Hat themselves, but also costs about $50,000 a copy. (Okay, I realize that number is off, depending on your situation, but my point remains. It’s expensive.)

What does it do? A lot, actually. You can use it for building new servers, and maintaining existing Continue reading Spacewalk as a viable replacement for Satellite →