OpenSUSE

Use a expired SLES with OpenSUSE repositories

Last week, I hit a wall when my SUSE Linux Enterprise Server license expired, stopping all repository access. Needing PostgreSQL urgently, I couldn’t wait for SUSE to renew my license and had to act fast.I chose to disable every(…)

Setting Up Prometheus and Grafana for a Patroni cluster

In today’s data-driven world, monitoring and visualizing the health and performance of your database clusters is a must. With tools like Prometheus and Grafana, you can gain valuable insights into your PostgreSQL Patroni setup, ensuring its smooth operation and(…)

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(…)

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(…)

CentOS 8 alternatives

Many people are unhappy about the decision from the CentOS Board of Directors, to switch from fix releases to Stream and cutting the support date from 2029 to 31st of December 2021 for CentOS 8. Many applications in productive environments(…)