Operating systems

The adaptable Linux Platform (ALP)

This is about something you maybe didn’t hear much yet: The openSUSE project and SUSE are working on a new enterprise operating system: ALP, the adaptive Linux Platform.

Uyuni, an open-source configuration and infrastructure management solution for software-defined infrastructure (2) – Adding a client

In the last post we’ve installed and configured the Uyuni server. In this post we’ll add our first client we later on can manage through the Uyuni server. Quite some distributions are(…)

Create and manage Ansible Execution Environments

by Alexandre Nestor Introduction What is an Ansible Execution Environnement, by the way ? As per RedHat definition an Ansible Execution Environment (EE) is a standard way to build and distribute the environment that automation runs in, which reduces complexity(…)

cloud-init native Ansible support

Cloud-init is a software developed to setup automatically a cloud virtual machine using metadata ingested and applied at the first boot or at a chosen frequency. All the magic happens through a #cloud-config YAML file. #cloud-config already supports Ansible execution(…)

ODA version 19.17 is available: how to patch?

How to patch your ODA to 19.17(…)

ODA : Do You Know The MOVE Table In MySQL DB Repository

By Mouhamadou Diaw During a consulting on a customer, we faced the following issue when trying to delete a dbhome Message:  DCS-10001:Internal error encountered: PRGO-2470 : Working copy “OraDB19000_home1” is involved in an incomplete move or upgrade operation The(…)

Patching ODA HA from 19.14 to 19.16

By Mouhamadou Diaw Patching an ODA is always exciting. Preparing a patch of an ODA HA may seem more complicated that an single ODA. But it’s the same processus. All patching operations should be run on one node. In(…)

NFS mount using Redhat autofs

First of all, why would you use autofs over nfs mount in the fstab ? Shares are accessed automatically and transparently when a user tries to access files or directories under the designated mount point of the remote filesystem to(…)

Patch ODA X8 : 19.9 to 19.11

By Mouhamadou Diaw In this blog, I describe the patching of an ODA X8 from 19.9 to 19.11. We use following patches p32790643_1911000_Linux-x86-64.zip : Oracle Database Appliance Server Patch for ODACLI/DCS Stackp30403673_1911000_Linux-x86-64.zip : Oracle Database Appliance GI Clone for(…)

SHELL SCRIPTING: How to return values from functions in bash scripts

BASH: make function to return arbitrary values, not only numbers(…)