The Wombelix Post - Dominik Wombacher

Hack Week 25: VM Import UI flow for SUSE Virtualization (Harvester)

Dominik Wombacher — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0100

I finished my Hack Week 25 project last night, with just two days delay ;) SUSE Virtualization (Harvester): VM Import UI flow.

But what exactly was it about and why did ... [read more]

params2env: AWS SSM Parameter Store to Environment variables

Dominik Wombacher — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0200

I recently released params2env, a CLI tool written in Go that manages AWS SSM Parameter Store parameters and converts them to environment variables. The project is available under the MIT ... [read more]

Modernizing jDeepL: Java 11 to 17 and Automated Releases

Dominik Wombacher — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0200

I had some time last night - the neighbors were having a party and I couldn't sleep - so I decided to tackle a task that's been sitting in my backlog for ... [read more]

Open Graph Support in my Pelican Theme

Dominik Wombacher — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0200

When sharing blog articles on LinkedIn, I noticed they showed The Wombelix Post instead of the actual article titles. After taking a closer look, it seems like social media platforms ... [read more]

Automated AWS Neuron Driver Source Code Publishing from Official RPM Packages

Dominik Wombacher — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0200

When you're working with open source drivers, you expect to find the code public available, for example in a git repository, where you can track changes and development. A couple ... [read more]

Serverless RAG without monthly costs using AWS Bedrock and S3 Vectors

Dominik Wombacher — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0200

I was curious if it's possible to build a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system for an AI chatbot in a pure serverless way without monthly fixed costs. The main goal was ... [read more]

New release of sr.ht go lib and terraform provider to fix update repo bug

Dominik Wombacher — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0200

Today I released new versions of terraform-provider-sourcehut (v0.2.1) and the related Go library sourcehut-go (v0.1.1). This is a bugfix release to address an issue when updating ... [read more]

DNS management with OpenTofu and some AI assistance

Dominik Wombacher — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0200

Today I migrated dozens of DNS records from manual to OpenTofu based management. My DNS provider allows downloading zone files in BIND format, but other information like record IDs needed ... [read more]

Impacted by AWS Layoffs - Looking for What's Next

Dominik Wombacher — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0200

I'm impacted by the recent AWS layoffs. Monday, July 28th, 2025 will be my last day after almost 3 years as a Senior Partner Solutions Architect.

During my time at ... [read more]

AWS Neuron Kernel Modules on OpenShift with KMM

Dominik Wombacher — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0200

As part of my work at AWS, I've been diving deep into running AI/ML workloads with the AWS Neuron SDK on Inferentia and Trainium instances on Red Hat OpenShift ... [read more]

Giving up on Pagure - Almost 3 years of trying to keep it alive

Dominik Wombacher — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0200

After almost 3 years of investing countless hours of my free time in the attempt to keep Pagure alive, I give up. I can't motivate myself anymore to continue and ... [read more]

Open Source isn't enough without a License

Dominik Wombacher — Thu, 01 May 2025 00:00:00 +0200

Just because source code is publicly available doesn't automatically make it open source. Without a proper license, that code exists in a legal grey area that can cause significant problems ... [read more]

GitHub Foundations

Dominik Wombacher — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0200

Passed the GitHub Foundations certification exam today. I've been using Git and GitHub for years, but figured it was time to make it official and validate my understanding of the ... [read more]

SUSE Certified Deployment Specialist in SUSE Edge

Dominik Wombacher — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0100

I was invited to the Beta Exam and passed the SCDS in SUSE Edge today. The Solution is basically a compilation of different Products. Most notable is the Edge Image ... [read more]

SUSE Certified Deployment Specialist in SUSE Multi-Linux Manager

Dominik Wombacher — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0100

I was invited to the Beta Exam and passed the SCDS in SUSE Multi-Linux Manager today. SUSE decided to create a new Certification for SUSE Multi-Linux Manager 5, formerly SUSE ... [read more]

OpenTofu based management of my git repositories

Dominik Wombacher — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0100

Yesterday I've completed the migration to git-repo-mgmt. It's an OpenTofu based management of my git repositories at Sourcehut with mirrors at Codeberg, Gitlab and GitHub.

I was tired to manually ... [read more]

Fedora / EPEL updates for aws-c-io and aws-c-http, new package aws-c-s3

Dominik Wombacher — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0100

As mentioned in my last Fedora / EPEL packaging post, updats for aws-c-io and aws-c-http are coming. They now arrived in Rawhide and all Stable Fedora branches as well as EPEL8 ... [read more]

Release: sourcehut (sr.ht) OpenTofu / Terraform provider and Go library

Dominik Wombacher — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0100

Today I released terraform-provider-sourcehut and the related Go library sourcehut-go into the wild. The majority of code is licensed under BSD-2-Clause. The provider is available in the OpenTofu and Terraform ... [read more]

OpenTofu State and Plan Encryption with AWS KMS

Dominik Wombacher — Sun, 22 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0100

Its been a while since OpenTofu 1.7.0 (Archive: [1], [2]) introduced an exciting new feature, the State and Plan Encryption (Archive: [1], [2]) for files at rest, for ... [read more]

SUSECON 25 is coming, four session proposals accepted!

Dominik Wombacher — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0100

I have the pleasure and great opportunity to represent Amazon Web Services (AWS) with two Sessions at SUSECON 25 in Florida (Archive: [1], [2]) together with my SUSE co-speaker Kevin ... [read more]

SUSE Blog published: Protect AWS CodePipeline CI/CD workflows with SUSE Security

Dominik Wombacher — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0100

This year I started as guest writer for the SUSE Blog. Today my latest Article was published: Protect AWS CodePipeline CI/CD workflows with SUSE Security (NeuVector) (Archive: [1], [2 ... [read more]

Fedora and EPEL updates for various AWS C lib packages

Dominik Wombacher — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0100

Among the Fedora and EPEL packages I maintain are 11 AWS C lib packages. I wrote some time ago about there function and challenge to package them. Today 9 of ... [read more]

SUSE Hack Week 2024 - Day 5

Dominik Wombacher — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0100

The problem with a failing test was driving me nuts yesterday. And I made a classic Engineer mistake, I didn't take a step back to clear my head and recharge ... [read more]

SUSE Hack Week 2024 - Day 4

Dominik Wombacher — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0100

Today was the focus on writing the pagure ci plugin and fine-tune my design and architecture assumptions on the way. Basically transferring the outcome of day 3 into some code ... [read more]

SUSE Hack Week 2024 - Day 3

Dominik Wombacher — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0100

I continued where I left off on the second day, I was thinking about my architecture last night. AWS CodePipeline requires a bit of a custom implementation within the AWS ... [read more]

SUSE Hack Week 2024 - Day 2

Dominik Wombacher — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0100

Second day, time to continue the work on my project after a successful first day. The focus was on research, tests and design decisions for the AWS CodePipeline pagure ci ... [read more]

SUSE Hack Week 2024 - Day 1

Dominik Wombacher — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0100

I started the work on my project AWS CodePipeline CI plugin for pagure on code.opensuse.org with my nemesis, the mysterious Unable to find object Exception that I couldn't ... [read more]

Use a Bucket as Git repository and AWS CodePipeline source with git-remote-s3

Dominik Wombacher — Sun, 17 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0100

Let's talk about how to use a ordinary S3 Bucket as serverless Git repository with the remote helper script git-remote-s3. Release v0.2.0, contains a feature that let you ... [read more]

Fluent Bit: Output Plugin for AWS CloudTrail Data Service

Dominik Wombacher — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0100

I recently wrote a AWS CloudTrail Data Service output plugin (Mirror: [1], [2], [3]) in Golang for Fluent Bit. It's Open Source under the Apache-2.0 license. The plugin ingest ... [read more]

SUSE Certified Administrator (SCA) in Longhorn 1.5 - Cloud native Storage

Dominik Wombacher — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0200

I passed the new SUSE Certified Administrator (SCA) in Longhorn 1.5 Exam today! Finally back at 100% SUSE Certified after almost a month since it was released ;) Now I'm ... [read more]

Red Hat Certified Specialist in Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA)

Dominik Wombacher — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0200

It was time to re-new and keep my RHCSA, and RHCE current. I was curious about the recently released RHCS in ROSA Exam. I passed the EX229 today and earned ... [read more]

AWS Certified AI Practitioner

Dominik Wombacher — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0200

I took and passed the brand new Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certified AI Practitioner (Archive: [1], [2]) exam this morning! Pretty cool to be one of the first people certified ... [read more]

AWS C libraries, the unknown heroes behind AWS tools and the adventure to package them

Dominik Wombacher — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0200

It all started with an orphaned Fedora package called aws-php-sdk3. I was interested to adopt and update it. I learned quickly that I have to take a look in the ... [read more]

Recordings of my sessions at openSUSE Conference 2024 are online

Dominik Wombacher — Sun, 07 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0200

I had the great opportunity to speak at openSUSE Conference 24 in Nuremberg about Pagure CI integration with AWS CodePipeline and NeuVector Integration into AWS CodePipeline CI/CD workflow, the ... [read more]

SUSE Certified Engineer in SLES High-Availability 15

Dominik Wombacher — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0200

And I'm back at 100% SUSE Certified :D I took the Exam on the first day of SUSECON 24 in Berlin. Glad that I passed, couple of tricky questions, but ... [read more]

Becoming a Fedora Packager

Dominik Wombacher — Fri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0200

I recently decided to finally become an active package maintainer. Quickly I had to realize that there are different ways to become a Fedora Packager. All have in common that ... [read more]

My first approved Fedora Package, yippie! ec2-instance-connect

Dominik Wombacher — Sun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 +0200

A while ago I was asked if I want to package ec2-instance-connect for Fedora and eventually EPEL. More specific "with Packit", which did send me down a weird path as ... [read more]

SUSE Certified Deployment Specialist in SLES High-Availability 15

Dominik Wombacher — Mon, 13 May 2024 00:00:00 +0200

SUSE invited me as Beta tester for the new SUSE Certified Deployment Specialist in SLES High-Availability 15 Exam. It was my pleasure to provide feedback and help to improve the ... [read more]

AWS CloudFormation and CDK doesn't support AWS SSM Parameter Store SecureString?!

Dominik Wombacher — Sun, 12 May 2024 00:00:00 +0200

I recently started to set up some resources on AWS for my side projects. For starters an AWS KMS key so I can encrypt data on S3 and in the ... [read more]

Fedora dist-git Packit onboarding

Dominik Wombacher — Sun, 05 May 2024 00:00:00 +0200

Packit, oh my god, that's a tool and service that gave me a pretty hard time to understand how it works. Not necessarily because it's a complicated tool. But it ... [read more]

Adopting orphaned Fedora packages or how one thing leads to another

Dominik Wombacher — Wed, 01 May 2024 00:00:00 +0200

Recently I started to become an active Fedora packager, which is something I really enjoy. It happens, for various reasons, that a package gets orphaned by its maintainer. Lack of ... [read more]

Pagure is still alive! Update about the gitolite backend removal

Dominik Wombacher — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0200

Yes pagure is alive, yes I'm still contributing, yes there will be a new release soon ;) I didn't have the time to contribute as I wished for, but whenever possible ... [read more]

AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional

Dominik Wombacher — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0100

Just one week after the AWS DevOps Engineer Professional I also passed the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional exam. I prefer to take such exams close to each other. There ... [read more]

AWS Devops Engineer Professional

Dominik Wombacher — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0100

After a few weeks of preparation I've passed the AWS Devops Engineer Professional Exam. I enjoyed most of the studying. There were just a couple of topics that are a ... [read more]

jDeepL version 0.7.4 released, pre-build binaries available

Dominik Wombacher — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0100

It's been a while since I announced and released the first version of jDeepL - Unofficial DeepL App for Linux based on JavaFX. Since then it was mentioned on a couple ... [read more]

Git repos moved to Sourcehut, with mirrors on Codeberg, GitLab and GitHub

Dominik Wombacher — Sat, 14 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0200

When I moved from a VPS to classic webhosting I had to shutdown my self-hosted git repos as well. I had Sourcehut on my list for years and decided it's ... [read more]

SUSECON 2023 recordings public available on YouTube

Dominik Wombacher — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0200

Since July the SUSECON 23 session recordings were available on-demand but required a registration. They now became public available on YouTube!

I talked about Rancher integration with AWS services, possibilities ... [read more]

How-to ace the CKAD, CKA and CKS exam in just one month

Dominik Wombacher — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0200

Between 31st July and 21st August 2023, I passed the CKA, CKAD and CKS Exam. It was quite a ride and required some discipline. Everything boils down to a lot ... [read more]

CKS: Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist

Dominik Wombacher — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0200

I did it, after already passing CKA and CKAD, I completed the trifecta today by passing the CKS: Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist as well. Taking and passing all three within ... [read more]

CKAD: Certified Kubernetes Application Developer

Dominik Wombacher — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0200

And the next one, after passing the CKA a week ago, I cleared CKAD: Certified Kubernetes Application Developer today, which makes two out of three, next stop CKS!

I wrote ... [read more]

My sessions from SUSECON Digital 23 are online

Dominik Wombacher — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0200

I had the great opportunity to speak at SUSECON 23, live in Munich and at the digital conference, about Rancher integration with AWS services and SUSE ALP prototype on AWS ... [read more]

CKA: Certified Kubernetes Administrator

Dominik Wombacher — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0200

My goal is to get all three Kubernetes Certifications from The Linux Foundation (CKA, CKAD, CKS), today I started this journey by passing the first Exam (CKA) and becoming a ... [read more]

Recordings of my sessions at openSUSE Conference 2023 are online

Dominik Wombacher — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0200

I had the great opportunity to speak at openSUSE Conference 23 in Nuremberg about Rancher integration with AWS services: possibilities, challenges, outlook and openSUSE ALP prototype on AWS, experimental, but ... [read more]

Linux Professional Institute LPIC-2

Dominik Wombacher — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0200

Today was finally the day I passed the second Exam 202-450 and became LPIC-2 certified. I passed the first Exam, 201-450 already in October 2019, but failed the second one ... [read more]

SUSE forks RHEL, SUSE Liberty Linux reloaded?

Dominik Wombacher — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0200

I will not go into details about the recent announcement from Red Hat to stop publishing RHEL sources on git.centos.org and the millions of reactions from all sides ... [read more]

Rancher on AWS, Logging to CloudWatch with IRSA for Authentication

Dominik Wombacher — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0200

This is the third Article of the Series Integrate Rancher with AWS services, I'm focusing on Logging to CloudWatch from Rancher by using IAM Roles for Service Accounts (IRSA) to ... [read more]

Rancher on AWS, Backup to S3 with IRSA for Authentication

Dominik Wombacher — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0200

This is the second Article of the Series Integrate Rancher with AWS services, I'm going to demonstrate how to perform backups from Rancher to S3 by using IAM Roles for ... [read more]

What is IAM Roles for Service Accounts (IRSA) and Amazon EKS Pod Identity Webhook?

Dominik Wombacher — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0200

This is the first Article of the Series Integrate Rancher with AWS services, I did quite a lot with Rancher on Amazon Web Services recently and want to share some ... [read more]

Website migration and temporary shutdown of onion service

Dominik Wombacher — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0200

Since a few years, this website was running on a VPS, together with some other side projects and my mailboxes. I like self-hosting but don't have always the time for ... [read more]

SUSE Certified Deployment Specialist in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15

Dominik Wombacher — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0200

Back at 100% after passing SCDS in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 today. Right now, I'm holding all available SUSE Certifications, a milestone I reached the first time in November ... [read more]

SUSE Certified Deployment Specialist in Rancher Manager 2.7 for Rancher Prime

Dominik Wombacher — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0200

Third day at SUSECON 23 in Munich, third Exam passed: SCDS in Rancher Manager 2.7 for Rancher Prime. After passing SCA in NeuVector 5 and SCDS in Rancher Kubernetes ... [read more]

SUSE Certified Deployment Specialist in Rancher Kubernetes Engine 2

Dominik Wombacher — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0200

Second day at SUSECON 23 in Munich, second Exam passed: SCDS in Rancher Kubernetes Engine 2. After passing SCA in NeuVector 5 yesterday, I can remove another one from my ... [read more]

SUSE Certified Administrator in SUSE NeuVector 5

Dominik Wombacher — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0200

First day at SUSECON 23 in Munich, first Exam passed: SCA in SUSE NeuVector 5. During SUSECON, event attendees can take SUSE Exams live on-site, I still had three on ... [read more]

SUSE Certified Deployment Specialist in SUSE NeuVector 5

Dominik Wombacher — Sun, 11 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0200

Here comes another one, SCDS in SUSE NeuVector 5 cleared today. It's my third SUSE Enterprise Container Management related Certification, the first one in the Security field. As always, preparing ... [read more]

How-to update Rancher Manager - deployed via Rancher Setup from AWS Marketplace - to the latest version

Dominik Wombacher — Fri, 05 May 2023 00:00:00 +0200

If you used Rancher Setup (Archive: [1], [2]) from AWS Marketplace to deploy Ranger Manager, you can perform a update to the latest version via Helm, the initial Rancher Setup ... [read more]

Rancher Setup from AWS Marketplace, no permissions to access the underlying Amazon EKS Cluster directly

Dominik Wombacher — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0200

Rancher Setup (Archive: [1], [2]) from AWS Marketplace deploys an EKS cluster and installs Rancher (Archive: [1], [2]) on top. It will create all necessary resources, the outcome is a ... [read more]

SUSE Certified Engineer in SLES for SAP Applications 15

Dominik Wombacher — Sun, 12 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0100

Proud to be SCE in SLES for SAP 15 number 166, after passing the two necessary Exams today. It's the first time SUSE requires two Exams to get certified and ... [read more]

My GPG Key is now available via Web Key Directory (WKD)

Dominik Wombacher — Thu, 29 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0100

First of all, what's WKD and what's the benefit using it? It's an easy way to retrieve GPG keys based on a given E-Mail address. It improves the user experience ... [read more]

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate

Dominik Wombacher — Wed, 28 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0100

I completed the AWS Associate Trifecta by passing the third Exam and becoming an AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate today. I'm very proud about getting all three Associate Certifications within ... [read more]

Why Open Source matter, experience of my last contribution to Uyuni

Dominik Wombacher — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0100

After being guest at Friday Ketchup with Emiel Brok, I had to think about my last contribution to Uyuni.

It’s a great example how even something small can have ... [read more]

AWS Certified Developer - Associate

Dominik Wombacher — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0100

Continuing my AWS Journey and on my way to get the Associate Trifecta, I passed the AWS Certified Developer - Associate Exam today, AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate up next.

During ... [read more]

Guest at Emiel Brok's Friday Ketchup

Dominik Wombacher — Sat, 10 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0100

During the SUSE Sales Summit 2022 in Malta this week, I finally had the chance to meet Emiel in person. I'm a huge fan of his Friday Ketchup and had ... [read more]

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

Dominik Wombacher — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0100

Becoming a AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate is part of my On-boarding at AWS, but I would do it either way ;)

I passed the Exam today after around three weeks ... [read more]

AWS Cloud Quest, a playful way to learn AWS

Dominik Wombacher — Sun, 13 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0100

I don't have much time anymore to play games, probably a reason why I love gamification, that's something that raise the chances that I continuously invest time in something.

I'm ... [read more]

SUSE Certified Deployment Specialist in SUSE Rancher and Kubernetes Distributions

Dominik Wombacher — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0100

Never stop learning! Today I passed the Exam SUSE Certified Deployment Specialist in SUSE Rancher and Kubernetes Distributions, it's my second SUSE Rancher and Kubernetes related Certification, preparing for the ... [read more]

SUSE Support Accreditation - SUSE Rancher

Dominik Wombacher — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0100

There was only on Certification left on my SUSE Learning Path, SPSA SUSE Rancher, which I received today, after meeting the Pre-Requirements by holding the SUSE Rancher SCA and SCDS ... [read more]

SUSE Certified Administrator in SUSE Rancher 2.6

Dominik Wombacher — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0100

I learned so much SLES and SUMA related already, it was time to focus on Container, Kubernetes and Rancher.

First Milestone achieved today by becoming a SUSE Certified Administrator in ... [read more]

My first month as Sr. Partner Solutions Architect at AWS

Dominik Wombacher — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0100

Wow what a ride! Begin of October I started at AWS and have to admit, this was a huge step and massive change. I joined the Linux & IBM Alliance Team ... [read more]

SUSE Certified Deployment Specialist in SUSE Manager 4

Dominik Wombacher — Mon, 19 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0200

By passing the Exam and getting recognized as SCDS in SUSE Manager 4 today, my SUSE Training & Certification Month comes to an end. I didn't planned to take this one ... [read more]

SUSE Certified Administrator (SCA) in SLES for SAP Applications 12

Dominik Wombacher — Sat, 17 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0200

September was somehow my SUSE Learning month, first I Updated my SCA and SCE to SLE 15, followed by earning SCA SLE HA 12 & 15 and today I also became ... [read more]

SUSE Certified Administrator (SCA) in SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability 12 and 15

Dominik Wombacher — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0200

I have the pleasure to work even more with SUSE Products in future, therefore I wanted to brush up my knowledge about SUSE Linux Enterprise Server High Availability a bit ... [read more]

Access to SUSE Live Lab Environment through SSH reverse Tunnel and RDP

Dominik Wombacher — Sat, 10 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0200

SUSE provides some great Training Courses with a lot of Exercises and Online Labs are also available for most of them. But, at least in the Environment available to SUSE ... [read more]

Hyperskill EduTools Plugin "Solve in IDE" Button without response / does not open IDE

Dominik Wombacher — Fri, 09 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0200

I'm using Hyperskill since a while, nice platform to learn Coding, also with daily challenges which I love to solve. Some of them are question based, others require actual programming ... [read more]

SUSE Certified Administrator (SCA) and Engineer (SCE) in Enterprise Linux 15

Dominik Wombacher — Mon, 05 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0200

It's quite a while since I passed the SCA and SCE Exam in SLES12, It was time to get them updated to SLES15, so today was the day to finally ... [read more]

Second attempt to pass the Oracle 1Z0-819 Java SE 11 Developer Exam

Dominik Wombacher — Wed, 31 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0200

I wrote about my first attempt last Year and gave it a another try today, after preparing a lot throughout the last weeks, but not as much as I actually ... [read more]

An Era comes to an end, Good Bye NTT

Dominik Wombacher — Fri, 26 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0200

Today was my last workday before I leave NTT officially end of September.

I started in August 2016 in a Senior Engineer Role within an ITO Business Unit, at that ... [read more]

SUSE NeuVector Sales & Technical Sales Certification

Dominik Wombacher — Wed, 03 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0200

Everyone is talking about SUSE NeuVector, I though it's time to learn more about it so I took the Sales and Technical Sales Course and passed the Exam.

To get ... [read more]

Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator

Dominik Wombacher — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0200

Next step on my Cloud Journey completed by passing the AZ-104 Exam, it was a tough one but still fair and a great basis to build further Azure knowledge on ... [read more]

openSUSE Tumbleweed - Python 3.10 - No package metadata was found for vorta

Dominik Wombacher — Sun, 17 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0200

I'm using Vorta, a Desktop Client for BorgBackup, on my Notebook with openSUSE Tumbleweed, which stopped working after upgrading Tumbleweed to a Version that started using Python 3.10 as ... [read more]

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Dominik Wombacher — Mon, 11 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0200

Cloud here I come, didn't planned to take the AWS Practitioner so quickly after the Azure Fundamentals, but I was so curious about things that both might have in common ... [read more]

Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals

Dominik Wombacher — Mon, 04 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0200

I started my Public Cloud / Hyperscaler Journey with Azure, first stop: AZ-900 Exam, passed and Certification received. Up next: AZ-104 - Microsoft Azure Administrator. AWS will follow in near future, I ... [read more]

SUSE Partner Support Accreditation - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

Dominik Wombacher — Wed, 15 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0200

Next step in my continuous learning path was to achieve the SPSA SLES, which I did today.

It was a great opportunity to strengthen my knowledge about troubleshooting, how to ... [read more]

jDeepL - Unofficial DeepL App for Linux based on JavaFX

Dominik Wombacher — Mon, 30 May 2022 00:00:00 +0200

I'm a daily DeepL User, the Windows App is convenient but nothing comparable was available for Linux, so I build my own.

jDeepL is a very simple GUI Application based ... [read more]

First time Speaker @ SUSECON Digital 2022 about SUSE Manager as a Service

Dominik Wombacher — Fri, 27 May 2022 00:00:00 +0200

In the Session SUSE Manager as a Service: Infrastructure & Patch Management made easy [POV-1236] (Archive: [1]) on Thursday, Jun 9, from 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM CEST, I will ... [read more]

Why I tackled nine SUSE Sales and Technical Sales Exams

Dominik Wombacher — Sun, 01 May 2022 00:00:00 +0200

In April I got certified as SUSE Sales Specialist and SUSE Technical Sales Specialist in the categories SLES, SLES for SAP, SUSE Manager and Rancher.

Overall nine eLearning Courses, each ... [read more]

Customized openSUSE Images, to run on Proxmox VE out of the box, build on OBS

Dominik Wombacher — Tue, 26 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0200

I'm using openSUSE whenever possible but had some trouble to use the official images on Proxmox. There is mostly a kvm-and-xen image available, but that doesn't contain cloud-init and / or ... [read more]

Import 'protective MBR' GPT disk images like SUSE or openSUSE to LVM-Thin with disabled zeroing cause corruption

Dominik Wombacher — Thu, 14 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0200

Any available SUSE and openSUSE KVM Image I tried, ended in a VM that stuck on boot with the message "a start job is running for /dev/disk/by-uuid" or ... [read more]

Provide outgoing IPv4 connectivity to Docker Container on a IPv6-only Host via clatd (464xlat)

Dominik Wombacher — Sun, 10 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0200

My experiences are based on a recent Harbor setup on Rocky Linux, but should be easily transferable to any other Application and Linux Distribution.

The journey began after Harbor was ... [read more]

vCloud Usage Meter 4.5 Upgrade - Error(908) Command line option is invalid: --skipdigest

Dominik Wombacher — Tue, 29 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0200

Again a interesting bug, this time during the In-Place Upgrade of a VMWare vCloud Usage Meter from Version 4.4 to 4.5, which shouldn't be a big deal based ... [read more]

Journey from RHEL 7 to CentOS 7 and Oracle Linux 8 with elevate

Dominik Wombacher — Mon, 28 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0200

From a technical point of view, every Red Hat Enterprise Linux derivate is as good as the original. If you are happy with community support, your use case doesn't require ... [read more]