I'm often asked about specific workflows within Red Hat's Satellite management tool. We'll take a look at a few common admin scenarios. One of the most common uses of Satellite is for centralized kickstart and provisioning. Here we'll walk through creating a new kickstart profile and some common options.

Now that you've stood up your bright shiny new virtualization pod, all of your OS management issues are behind you, right? Not so fast. Virtualization does nothing for you in patch and configuration management, and can actually exacerbate the problem. Many workflows surrounding virtualization lean toward image based techniques, which can be more of a problem than traditional bare-metal techniques. Let’s look at the problems of image management and how you need a systems management solution in a virtual environment as much, if not more, than you do now.