Katello is not actually a single product in isolation, but a union of several open source infrastructure management products into one cohesive infrastructure management solution. Where Pulp is solely focused on the efficient, controllable storage of packages (and other important content for infrastructure management), Katello brings together the following:
- Foreman: This is an open source product designed to handle the provisioning and configuration of both physical and virtual servers. Foreman includes a rich web-based GUI, a RESTful API, and a CLI tool called Hammer, providing a rich and varied means of management. It also provides integration with several automation tools, originally just Puppet but more recently also Ansible.
- Katello: Katello is actually a plugin for Foreman and provides additional features such as the rich version control of content...