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ChatGPT vs Oracle DBA

Is ChatGPT (AI chatbot) useful for an Oracle DBA?(…)

Converting from Unix timestamps to “real” timestamps in PostgreSQL

Recently we’ve been asked how an application can be changed from using Unix timestamps to PostgreSQL timestamps. It is still not so uncommon to store dates and times in numeric data types,(…)

Patching ODA HA from 19.10 to 19.17

By Mouhamadou Diaw In this blog I am describing an ODA HA (serveroda1 and serveroda2) patch from 19.10 to 19.17. The process is the same that patching a non-HA ODA. Few tasks may need to be done on both(…)

Log Rotation in JBoss-EAP

Log rotation is an important topic while configuring any software. If it is not tuned as it should it could lead to full partitions, service outages or even configuration corruptions.JBoss-EAP is not different, thus I will explain what are our(…)

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.

Kubernetes SSO using Azure AD: The Production Solution

In my previous blog I’ve detailed the tests we did regarding SSO in Kubernetes using Azure AD. I’ve described all the steps of our research on this topic in order to give our readers a real(…)

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(…)

Uyuni, an open-source configuration and infrastructure management solution for software-defined infrastructure (1) – The server

Most of you probably heard of Red Hat Satellite, a product which is used to manage Linux infrastructures. Maybe you also heard about SUSE Manager, which does more or less the same(…)

Fast setup of a two node repmgr cluster with auto failover

This blog is about a fast, script based, setup of a repmgr two node cluster with auto failover. This setup is very easy and the requirements comparing to a patroni setup very low, for exapmle as open port on the(…)

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(…)