Sounds likely to me - I know their Satellite system is basically Cobbler and some extra gubbins, so there’s certainly prior art there.
congratulations to the project if that’s the case!
Well, for Ansible this is awesome! Congrats to you!
I’m interested in what it will mean to users though. (Hoping on an open sourced Tower 
)
Mark
Not any more. Satellite 6 is a totally new beast, based on the upstream open source tool Katello. Katello itself is a combination of Foreman + Candlepin + Pulp. The Foreman component was really written with Puppet in mind, but I can’t see how that’s going to be strategic in light of today’s news.
Congratulations to the Ansible team.
Foreman was originally written with puppet in mind, but it has a modular plugin system where one can use it with Chef, Saltstack, and possibly Ansible, however nothing yet has been done for ansible apart from scattered scripts here and there around net last time i checked. most likely as foreman orchestration was non-existent before 1.9 Ansible will be the right solution for that, as well for openstack among other Infra/app deployment and provisioning projects. its awesome!