This is a hands-on book, so without further ado, let's get started and set up our very own Katello server. Alongside the advantages of Katello already discussed, another is the packaging of the product. When we set up our Pulp server, there were many individual components where we had to make decisions (for example, RabbitMQ versus Qpid) and then additional setup to perform (for example, SSL transport for MongoDB). Katello has even more moving parts than Pulp (if Pulp is considered as just a component of the Katello platform), and hence installing it by hand would be a vast and complex task.
Thankfully, Katello provides an installation system that can get you up and running with just a few commands, which we will explore in the next section of this chapter.