[xorcist]

Oh, I understand it's stock Puppet inside the thing. But much of the tooling around it (the Hiera syntax, the dashboard, the DB) acts as an alternative to the tooling around Puppet.

Satellite 6 and Puppet Enterprise are direct competitors, and there is not much further upstream development on Puppet 3.6, so I expect Red Hat to have to take on the necessary development work during the life time of the product.

So, in essence almost a fork already, and in the future much more so. You already have to choose, you have to port your old codebase and tooling to one or the other.

[eLobato]

Foreman is working on Puppet 4 support [1], and I'd say we'll try to push it forward sooner than later as soon as we complete the migration to Rails 4. Foreman is the upstream for Satellite 6.

[1] http://projects.theforeman.org/issues/8447