Chapter 3. Technology Preview features

Satellite provides a container image that you can use to run a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server locally. The MCP server for Satellite is designed for advanced reporting and data analysis that leverages AI capabilities. You can use it to generate dynamic and comprehensive reports from your Satellite inventory. With the container image provided with Satellite 6.19, you can also use MCP to patch hosts and incrementally update, publish, and promote content views. For more information on this update, see Jira:SAT-40970.

For more information on MCP for Satellite, see Connecting AI applications to the MCP server for Satellite.

Jira:SAT-35530

You can provision virtual machines by using the OpenShift Virtualization plugin. For more information, see Provisioning hosts.

Jira:SAT-18663^[1]

This update introduces many fixes and improvements for the Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization compute resource, which is a Technology Preview feature. This improves the stability and usability of this feature.

Jira:SAT-41368

You can use the kernel execution (kexec) provisioning template for PXE-less boot methods. For more information, see Discovery in PXE-less mode.

Jira:SAT-21012