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JJJCR · 05-10-2023, 05:24 AM

Hi guys, any one uses Katello to patch RHEL?

Don't have Satellite subscription, not sure if Katello Foreman can do it.

Any ideas to patch RHEL, servers/VMs without RH Satellite?

Thanks in advance.

chrism01 · 05-10-2023, 11:16 PM

You could use eg Puppet (or Saltstack/Ansible/Chef etc), with local (internal) repo servers.
It can update systems automatically and optionally restart any assoc service that depends on the update.

We tend to go for semi-manual restarts for kernels because that requires rebooting the entire machine. VMs are usually pretty reliable coming back, but Real Metal systems sometimes misbehave ...
Similarly for base libs like glibc.

HTH

JJJCR · 05-11-2023, 04:30 AM

local (internal) repo servers <-- any guides or links on how to setup one of this?

Thank you.

chrism01 · 05-12-2023, 12:02 AM

Read through these carefully to ensure you understand before you start :

https://www.certdepot.net/rhel7-set-...epository-lab/
https://code.google.com/archive/p/ir...epository.wiki
https://kenfallon.com/how-to-mirror-...your-firewall/

It's quite a common request, so google has lots of results ...

JJJCR · 05-12-2023, 04:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chrism01

Read through these carefully to ensure you understand before you start :

https://www.certdepot.net/rhel7-set-...epository-lab/
https://code.google.com/archive/p/ir...epository.wiki
https://kenfallon.com/how-to-mirror-...your-firewall/

It's quite a common request, so google has lots of results ...

Thanks Chris!