As Katello is built around technologies we have already explored, such as Pulp, it carries with it the same limitations we have already seen regarding DEB packages. For instance, although repositories of DEB packages can be built up easily in Katello, and even the appropriate GPG public keys imported, the resulting published repositories do not feature an InRelease or Release.gpg file and so must be implicitly trusted by all hosts that use these. Similarly, although there is a complete subscription management framework available for RPM-based hosts consisting of the subscription-manager tool and the Pulp Consumer agent, again, no such equivalent exists for DEB hosts and so these must be configured manually.
Although it would be entirely possible to configure RPM-based hosts to use the built-in technologies, DEB-based ones would have to be configured with...