The Wombelix Post - SUSE

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

SUSE Certified Administrator in SUSE Manager 4

Dominik Wombacher — Tue, 28 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0200

I passed the SUSE Exam sca_suma4 today and refreshed my SCA Systems Management / SUSE Manager 3 Certification to SUSE Manager 4. Was very interesting to validate existing knowledge and as ... [read more]

SUSE Certified Engineer (SCE) in Enterprise Linux 12

Dominik Wombacher — Sun, 03 May 2020 00:00:00 +0200

Today i passed the Practical Exam SUSE SCE 050-750 and earned the SUSE Certified Engineer (SCE) in Enterprise Linux 12 Certification.

Summary: Administering SLES12 and deal with specialized networking ... [read more]

SUSE Certified Administrator (SCA) in Enterprise Linux 12

Dominik Wombacher — Sun, 18 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0200

I attended the Practical Exam SUSE SCA 050-747 Exam today and was rewarded with the Certification SUSE Certified Administrator (SCA) in Enterprise Linux 12.

Summary: Fundamental understanding of the SUSE ... [read more]

SUSE Certified Administrator in Systems Management / SUSE Manager 3

Dominik Wombacher — Sun, 09 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0100

Today i passed the questoin based SUSE SCA 050-742 and earned the SUSE Certified Administrator in Systems Management / SUSE Manager 3 Certification.

Summary: Install and configure SUSE Manager 3.1 ... [read more]