The closest thing RHEL has to a cloud image is a qcow (download from here). This image has disabled root password, and disabled SSH access ← so what the heck!?

Method 1: modify image directly

Really ugly solution. Anyway. On a Ubuntu 16.04, install guestfish and libguesttools, then:

create root ...

These notes are based on Satellite 6.3. There are minor difference between 6.2 and 6.3. Grasp the concept here, and hopefully you will have a good understanding of the Satellite models and procedures.

Architecture

1. One satellite server (master server), and 1+ capsule servers.
2. The Satellite Server is ...