During the Red Hat Summit in May this year, an interesting extension of the popular Infrastructure as Code solution was presented with Event-driven Ansible. With EDA, Ansible is extended by a proactive component that allows it to react dynamically to events. This focuses on the previous unique selling point of …

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When it comes to managing larger system landscapes, SUSE Manager and the open source upstream project Uyuni are useful tools. They can be used to set up new systems, deploy patches and also support Infrastructure as Code via SaltStack. In the context of customer projects, I have carried out numerous installations and …

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From 20.06 to 22.06 the SUSECON took place in Munich. This was the first time since 2020 that the manufacturer's own conference was held in presence again. For well-known reasons, the last three conferences were held as pure online events. Since 28.06, the keynotes as well as many other exclusive presentations that did …

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When automatically customizing openSUSE 15.2 guests under VMware vSphere 6.7 recently, I stumbled upon the famous "Guest Customization failed" issue (once again). After eliminating the most common error (not having Perl installed which is necessary) I had a look at the VMware Compatibility Guide. Looks like …

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Recently, I stumbled upon the following issue when creating new openSUSE Leap 15.1 Vagrantboxes from the generic and roboxes projects: 1[ TIME ] Timed out waiting for device dev-sda2.device. 2[DEPEND] Dependency failed for Resume from hibernation using device /dev/sda2. 3[ OK ] Reached target Local File System (Pre). …

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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 (SLES) not only introduced new software packages - another big update was making those packages more modular. In comparison to predecessor releases, SLES has a generic installation media for the first time. Earlier versions had dedicated images for products such as SLES for SAP or SUSE …

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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 agent was installed within the template. For classic systems (registered via RHNSD …

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Last Tuesday, one of the SUSE Linux Expert Days 2018 events was taking place in Frankfurt. Every year, SUSE arranges plenty of those events in order to update customers with talks and demonstrations about new products and updates. Instead of less events with bigger audience, 80 regional events are arranged to keep …

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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 event was planned for 5 hours and consisted of many interesting talks: Keynote - Michael Jores, Regional Director Central …

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A couple of days ago I stumbled upon something I nearly forgot: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMware. This is a slightly customized version of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) created 2010 during a cooperation between VMware and Novell. The most interesting thing about this is that this version is completely …

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