From 17.06 to 19.06 the SUSECON took place in Berlin. Compared to the previous iteration of the conference, the event took place exclusively in presence. Hinweis 🎙️ On the occasion of SUSECON 2024, a special was published in the FOCUS ON: Linux-Podcast. In addition to a wrap-up, there is also an interview with parts of …

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From 06.05 to 09.05 the Red Hat Summit took place in Denver. The conference once again focused on the latest developments and announcements from the company's own ranks. Approximately 6000 participants attended the event in Colorado. Note On the occasion of the Red Hat Summit 2024, a two-part special was published in …

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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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Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (AAP), the commercial variant of the AWX project, is used to orchestrate and execute Ansible content in large and distributed system landscapes. A web interface facilitates the use in teams, while the actual execution takes place in specially adapted Podman containers - also called …

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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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From 23.05 to 25.05 the Red Hat Summit took place in Boston. The manufacturer's own conference thus took place - for well-known reasons - for the first time since 2020 in presence. For me it was the first Red Hat conference. notice On the occasion of Red Hat Summit 2023, a three-part special was published in the FOCUS …

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When using Ansible under WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) recently, I stumbled upon the following error: 1Failed to create temporary directory. 2In some cases, you may have been able to authenticate and did not have permissions on the target directory. Consider changing the remote tmp path in ansible.cfg to a path …

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When implementing larger tasks in Ansible, you might thinking about writing your own Ansible role sooner or later. For this, the ansible-galaxy command can help you: 1$ ansible-galaxy init my-role 2- my-role was created successfully Beside handlers, variables and meta data, also a test task is created. Using this task, …

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While using the Ansible modules get_url and unarchive I recently stumbled upon the following errors: 1failed to create temporary content file: 'The read operation timed out' 2failed to create temporary content file: (-1, 'Unexpected EOF') After some research it figured out that the urllib3 library …

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