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Docker Containers for Developers

As I am working on developing a component for YaK, I have to stick to standards on how to write code in Ansible as well as many other constraints regarding security. I always thought of(…)

A brief history of data quality or – the birth of OMrun. Part 1: Complexity is only the first name

It all started more than 15 years ago when the core business of OMIS AG (the previous owner of OMrun) was consulting services. At this time, senior consultant and CIO Frank Zeindler was engaged in a mandate for(…)

VMware Tanzu Kubernetes: Introduction

Welcome in the world of managed Kubernetes! You’ve probably click or found this blog searching for more informations on Tanzu. Probably also because full or part of your infrastructure is managed with vSphere and you have interests. Perfect,(…)

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(…)

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(…)

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(…)

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(…)

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(…)

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(…)