You can now create a Satellite manifest without a Satellite subscription

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Wanted to let everyone know about a recent change to the Manifests service on console.redhat.com that should be welcome for the Katello community :slight_smile:

Previously, if you managed Red Hat Enterprise Linux repos with Katello, it required either a Satellite manifest (which you can only create if you buy Satellite from Red Hat) or a “SAM” manifest, which was obsolete but the only way to get access to your RHEL subscriptions with upstream Katello.

With this change, live now, you can now create and download genuine Satellite manifests for import into Foreman/Katello. All that’s required is any valid RHEL subscription.

This allows you to generate a manifest at console-dot, import it, and then add subscriptions to it from the Foreman/Katello UI as needed. (For connected users) you no longer need to use the old access.redhat.com site.

(Air-gapped users will still need to use the old site to add subscriptions, for now.)

Details on permissions:

  • Any customer that wants to create, read, update, destroy (CRUD) a manifest on Hybrid Cloud Console needs to only have any active RHEL subscription.

  • Only users with subscription:manifest:write permissions (part of the Default Admin Access RBAC Role) can CRUD manifests.

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I am actually very thankful to Red Hat for keeping this working, also for users outside of the Satellite use case :slight_smile: (aka. keeps working for orcharhino and Foreman)
And of course also thanks for keeping us updated on this topic!

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That is great news.

An addition to the previous situation. The Satellite subscription can be added to a Red Hat account through the “Red Hat Developer Subscription for Teams” which includes Satellite (you need to be running test instances) and comes at no cost.
Downside: This subscription has to be obtained through the sales workflow (even though the cost is 0.0). This can take time to accomplish.