Spacewalk Insights

What is Spacewalk?

Spacewalk is an open-source Linux systems management solution. It is used to manage and update software on Red Hat-derived distributions like Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), CentOS, and Fedora. It allows administrators to centrally manage systems, provision new systems, distribute software updates and patches, and automate system administration tasks.

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What other technologies are related to Spacewalk?

Spacewalk Competitor Technologies

Foreman

Foreman is a life cycle management tool for physical and virtual servers. It provides provisioning, configuration management, and monitoring capabilities, overlapping significantly with Spacewalk's functionality.

mentioned alongside Spacewalk in 5% (100) of relevant job posts

Red Hat Satellite

Red Hat Satellite is the official supported version of Spacewalk from Red Hat. It provides similar features for managing and patching Red Hat based systems, making it a direct competitor.

mentioned alongside Spacewalk in 2% (56) of relevant job posts

Satellite

Satellite is a shortened name for Red Hat Satellite. It provides similar features for managing and patching Red Hat based systems, making it a direct competitor.

mentioned alongside Spacewalk in 1% (79) of relevant job posts

WSUS

Windows Server Update Services provides update management for Windows-based systems, serving a similar purpose as Spacewalk but for a different operating system family, thus competing in the broader systems management landscape.

mentioned alongside Spacewalk in 0% (69) of relevant job posts

SolarWinds

SolarWinds offers a broad suite of IT management and monitoring tools that overlap with Spacewalk's systems management capabilities, especially in terms of patching and inventory management.

mentioned alongside Spacewalk in 0% (57) of relevant job posts

Spacewalk Complementary Technologies

Puppet

Puppet is a configuration management tool that can be integrated with Spacewalk to manage the state of systems. Spacewalk can use Puppet to apply configurations to managed systems.

mentioned alongside Spacewalk in 0% (211) of relevant job posts

NFS

Network File System can be used by Spacewalk to store software packages and configuration files. It provides a shared storage solution that Spacewalk can leverage.

mentioned alongside Spacewalk in 0% (66) of relevant job posts

Ansible

Ansible is a configuration management and automation tool. It provides similar capabilities to Puppet and Chef, and can be integrated with Spacewalk to manage system configuration.

mentioned alongside Spacewalk in 0% (267) of relevant job posts