It is a common procedure to use templates (“golden images“) when deploying virtual machines. Recently I had an issue when deploying SLES machines – newly registered systems within SUSE Manager replaced older one. The management … Read more
This week Spacewalk was released in version 2.4 after 6 months of development. In summary, about 60 bugs were fixed and some new features were implemented. The web-interface is now available to other projects as … Read more
GitLab is a very popular alternative to GitHub that is available as free Community Edition for interested hobbyists and smaller companies. For installing the software, there is a script for downloading and installing the particular software … Read more
After Red Hat Satellite 5.7 was released 3 months ago Spacewalk version 2.3 was published on 14th of april 2015 after 9 months of development. Like the commercial spin-off the recent management suite also offers … Read more
The current issue of freiesMagazin 03/2015 also included the fifth and last part of my article series about Spacewalk, Red Hat Satellite und SUSE Manager. A collection of all links for interested first-time users [badge … Read more
This week one of the SUSE Linux Expert Day events that are taking place worldwide since september 2014 was hosted at 25hours Hotel Frankfurt by Levi’s – a very stylish and fancy location! Agenda The … Read more
Hint from january 2015: the bug has been fixed in the meantime. I found out that it is currently (11/01/2014) impossible to run osad (Open Source Architecture Daemon) with SELinux enabled on EL6.6 and EL7 … Read more
Am letzten Wochenende fand in Sankt-Augustin die neunte FrOSCon (Free and Open Source Software Conference) statt. Wie schon vor zwei Jahren haben Dennis, Björn und meine Wenigkeit die Hochschule Bonn/Rheinsieg besucht, um zahlreiche Vorträge und … Read more
This week the first official CentOS Dojo in Cologne was taking place. CentOS Dojos are one-day events where administrators and developers can exchange knowledge. Talks about recent topics are always part of these events. inovex … Read more
Beside Linux systems also Oracle Solaris hosts can be managed using Spacewalk and Red Hat Satellite – a cool feature that is often forgotten. (Update: since Spacewalk 2.2 from 07/16/2014 this function is “deprecated” which … Read more
