Chapter 5. Satellite infrastructure organization concepts

On your Satellite Server, you can define organizations and locations to help organize content, hosts, and configurations. Organizations and locations enable you to arrange Satellite resources into logically structured groups. For example, you can create groups based on ownership, purpose, content, or security level. You can create and manage multiple organizations through Red Hat Satellite, then divide and assign your Red Hat subscriptions to each individual organization.

Satellite Server defines all locations and organizations. Each Capsule Server synchronizes content and handles configuration of hosts in a different location.

Your Satellite Server retains the management function, while the content and configuration is synchronized between your Satellite Server and Capsule Servers assigned to certain locations.

A host group acts as a template for common host settings.

With host groups, you can define many settings for hosts, such as lifecycle environment, content view, or Ansible roles that are available to the hosts. Instead of defining the settings individually for each host, you can use host groups to define common settings once and apply them to multiple hosts.

You can create nested host groups.

A host collection is a group of content hosts.

With host collections, you can perform the same action on multiple hosts at once. These actions include installing, removing, and updating packages and errata, and assigning content view environments.

For example, you can use host collections to group hosts by function, department, or business unit.