Last updated: August 27, 2026 · Reading time: 7–8 minutes A new major release, Foreman 5.0, is coming soon. Since the first release candidate now gives us a pretty clear idea of what's in store, it's time to take a look at it. The Most Important Points at a Glance The version jump from 3.19 to 5.0 does not bring a flood of changes, but rather standardizes the versioning of Foreman and Katello. Foreman 5.0 supports Ruby 3.0 through 3.3; a switch to Rails 7.1 is in the works, but depends on EL 9...
Dirk Götz
From the initial installation to the running monitoring stack:
Here you will find all instructions for the basic installation of Icinga.
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Katello as a package mirror for Icinga
This article is about setting up Katello as a package mirror for Icinga. Specifically, Icinga for Windows, Debian / Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and other derivatives. In consulting, different products from our portfolio come together again and again, and since we naturally also work on open source projects and want to improve them, such a meeting is always the right starting point. This was also the case recently when I spoke to Christian Stein, the main contact person for Icinga for...

