Spacewalk (software)

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Spacewalk
Original author(s) Red Hat
Initial release June 2008
Stable release 2.0 / July 19, 2013 (2013-07-19)
Written in Java, Perl and Python
Operating system Linux
Available in English, Francais, Bengali, Hindi, Japanese, Punjabi, Russian, Simplified Chinese, German, Spanish, Gujarati, Italian, Korean, Brazilian, Portuguese, Tamil, Traditional Chinese
Type Systems management
License GNU General Public License v2
Website http://www.spacewalkproject.org/

Spacewalk is open source systems management software developed by Red Hat. It is the upstream version of the RHN Satellite Server, which was open sourced in 2008. Spacewalk includes the web interface and back-end, as well as RHN Proxy Server and associated client software of Satellite and makes them available to users and developers under a free and open source software (FOSS) license. The relationship between Spacewalk and Satellite is analogous to the relationship between Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Whereas Satellite manages only RHEL and Solaris systems, Spacewalk manages Fedora, CentOS, SUSE and Debian systems.[1]

It is free software licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2. While formerly requiring the commercial Oracle Database as a backend, version 1.7 (released in March 2012) added support for PostgreSQL.[2]

Satellite 5.3 is the first version to be based on upstream Spacewalk code.[3]

In March 2011 Novell released SUSE Manager 1.2, which is based on Spacewalk 1.2 and supports managing both SUSE Linux Enterprise and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.[4]

Future

Spacewalk and RHN Satellite are in long-term support mode for Red Hat, as they were designed monolithic to duplicate the RHN experience that customer saw in 2001 on Red Hat website to be internally deployed into a company or organization intranet. Therefor the design criteria were web centric before the cloud and system management tooling such as Chef and Puppet & cfengine or other 3rd party tooling openstack . Red Hat has embraced current Open Source Components, like Puppet and Foreman to be the Underlying of the Satellite 6 Release, which currently is running in a Managed Design Program, slated for release in 2014.

References

  1. ↑ "Spacewalk: Free & Open Source Linux Systems Management". redhat.com. Retrieved 2012-10-14. 
  2. ↑ "PostgreSQL – spacewalk". Fedorahosted.org. 2012-03-07. Retrieved 2012-10-14. 
  3. ↑ "Red Hat stretches Linux system management tentacle". The Register. 2009-09-02. Retrieved 2014-02-05. 
  4. ↑ "Novell Rolls Out Advanced Linux Systems Management Solution". Novell.com. 2011-03-03. Retrieved 2012-10-14. 

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