# Red Hat Satellite

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/red-hat-satellite/  
**Website:** https://access.redhat.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 9

Red Hat Satellite is a systems management product that helps deploy, configure, and maintain systems across physical, virtual, and cloud environments.

## Kin Score — 46.0 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 46.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 55.6 |
| Contract Quality | 66.7 |
| Governance | 25.0 |
| Contract Governance | 25.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 39.5 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 57.1 |
| Commercial Clarity | 21.1 |
| Access Clarity | 21.1 |

## Agent readiness — 35.0 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | verified |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Enterprise · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: enterprise, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (9)

- **Red Hat Satellite Hammer CLI** — Command-line interface tool for Red Hat Satellite that provides scriptable access to Satellite functions including host management, content views, and provisioning.
- **Red Hat Satellite Foreman API** — Core Foreman API integrated into Red Hat Satellite for host lifecycle management, provisioning, and configuration management. This is the upstream project API that powers Satell...
- **Red Hat Satellite Katello API** — Content management API for Red Hat Satellite handling repositories, content views, lifecycle environments, subscriptions, and errata. Katello is the upstream plugin that provide...
- **Red Hat Satellite Ansible Collection** — The redhat.satellite Ansible collection provides modules, roles, and plugins for automating Red Hat Satellite configuration and management through the Satellite API. Based on th...
- **Red Hat Satellite Content Views API** — Manage content views which define curated sets of repositories and packages available to hosts.
- **Red Hat Satellite Hosts API** — Manage hosts registered with Red Hat Satellite including physical, virtual, and cloud instances.
- **Red Hat Satellite Lifecycle Environments API** — Manage lifecycle environments that define promotion paths for content views from development through production.
- **Red Hat Satellite Organizations API** — Manage organizations which provide multi-tenancy isolation for hosts, content, and subscriptions.
- **Red Hat Satellite Subscriptions API** — Manage Red Hat subscriptions and entitlements for organizations and hosts.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Red Hat Satellite Agentic Access** — 22 operations · 13 acting

## Security (4)

- **Red Hat Satellite Authentication** — http/oauth2 · 2 schemes
- **Red Hat Satellite Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Red Hat Satellite Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published
- **Red Hat Satellite Trust Center** — ISO 27001, ISO 27018, HIPAA

## Plans (1)

- **Red Hat Satellite Plans Pricing**

## Use cases (5)

- **Automated Server Provisioning** — Provision new servers automatically using compute resources, host groups, and kickstart templates.
- **Security Patching at Scale** — Identify, test, and deploy security errata across thousands of hosts using content views and promotion workflows.
- **Hybrid Cloud Management** — Manage hosts across on-premises data centers and cloud providers from a single console.
- **Compliance Reporting** — Generate compliance reports using OpenSCAP integration to verify hosts meet security baselines.
- **Air-Gapped Environment Management** — Manage systems in disconnected environments using content synchronization and inter-satellite sync.

## Tags

Configuration Management, Lifecycle Management, Patch Management, Subscription Management, Systems Management

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/red-hat-satellite/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.