The Wombelix Post - Uyuni

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]

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]

How changing '<' to '>=' introduced a weird and hard to track bug

Dominik Wombacher — Tue, 22 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0100

After upgrading to Uyuni 2022.2 I wasn't able to sync openSUSE Leap 15.3 and Oracle Linux 8 repositories anymore, the configured HTTP Proxy was ignored. Multiple people reported ... [read more]

Setup Uyuni Development Environment with focus on Java and IntelliJ

Dominik Wombacher — Wed, 09 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0100

Hacking Uyuni, either to troubleshoot and fix bugs or to contribute new features / improvements is something I do since quite a while already, at least whenever I find some time ... [read more]

Uyuni Test Environment with sumaform on local libvirt host (openSUSE Tumbleweed)

Dominik Wombacher — Tue, 08 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0100

A convenient way to quickly setup a local Uyuni Instance inclusive Clients, either for Development or Testing, is sumaform. It supports different backends and provides a ton of options, check ... [read more]

SUSE Manager / Uyuni - Upcoming feature: Salt Bundle (venv-salt-minion)

Dominik Wombacher — Sat, 11 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0200

I want to share what I already could find about it, how it seem to work, it's going to be implemented and what issues / challenges it's going to address / resolve ... [read more]

SUSE Manager / Uyuni - Database Backup with "smdba" fails on symlink

Dominik Wombacher — Tue, 31 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0200

I performed a Upgrade of our SUSE Manager Instance at work to Version 4.2 and in parallel adjusted the disk layout a bit.

The exact details about all the ... [read more]

First Contribution to the Uyuni Project aka SUSE Manager

Dominik Wombacher — Wed, 24 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0100

I'm using a lot of Open Source Software and always benefited from the work of the community. So whenever possible I try to contribute and give something back.

As mentioned ... [read more]

SUSE Manager / Uyuni - Salt SSH Push: Thin package corrupted

Dominik Wombacher — Tue, 02 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0100

At work we had issues with almost all Salt-SSH / SSH-Push connected Clients for months due to an unhandled exception ImportError: No module named 'salt.exceptions' that occurred regularly. It took ... [read more]

SUSE Manager / Uyuni - Valid PTR Record required for SSH-Push Clients

Dominik Wombacher — Tue, 23 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0100

I'm responsible for a SUSE Manager Installation, the commercial product based on Uyuni, with almost 900 connected Server.

The recommend connection method is using a Salt Minion, but SSH-Push - based ... [read more]