Starting in Foreman 1.10 (Satellite 6.2 is based on Foreman 1.11[1]; Katello is now officially a Foreman plugin), Foreman introduced the Ansible plugin in a mor

Starting in Foreman 1.10 (Satellite 6.2 is based on Foreman 1.11[1]; Katello is now officially a Foreman plugin), Foreman introduced the Ansible plugin in a more/less primitive form. Essentially, the goal was/is to provide an Ansible alternative for provisioning where Puppet was used previously. Before, you could only specify Puppet classes to apply to initialized hosts but now specifying Ansible roles is possible. So in a very basic use case where you want to configure a new compute instance in your environment, there's not much difference. However, in cases when you need to do things like hardening enforcement and remediation, end-user self-provisioning with surveys, workflows involving disparate tools which Ansible can coordinate (which may not even involve your hosts), reviewing/analyzing results of a play across 100s or 1000s of hosts, or auditing/rbac controls, Tower/AWX will be your tool. These features will most likely not make their way into Satellite because that's not really the focus of Satellite. [1]: https://access.redhat.com/articles/1343683 https://access.redhat.com/articles/1343683 Quick correction: after looking at some docs on the RH site, it seems the Ansible Foreman plugin may not be included in Satellite at this time. I suspect this will change in the upcoming versions, but not really a way to tell at this point :( Edit 3!!: Ansible support is coming but not for a while. See discussion regarding the roadmap presentation from Summit here: https://www.reddit.com/r/redhat/comments/6lb460/satellite_63_dates_and_confirmed_features/ https://www.reddit.com/r/redhat/comments/6lb460/satellite_63...