Katello is actually an amalgamation of several incredibly powerful open source infrastructure management tools, including Pulp, which we have already explored. It is incredibly adept at patch management in an infrastructure setting, offering numerous advantages over a standalone Pulp installation and can handle most build and maintenance tasks from a single pane of glass—more than we have had space to cover!

In this chapter, you gained an understanding of what the Katello project actually is and the components that it is comprised of. You then learned how to perform a standalone installation of Katello for patching purposes and then how to build out repositories suitable for patching both RPM- and DEB-based Linux distributions and the basics of integrating these two operating systems with Katello content views.

In the next chapter, we will explore how Ansible can be effectively employed in an enterprise for user management.