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 SLES repository and switched to the openSUSE Leap repository. This worked flawless and made my system usable in very short time.…
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 proactive maintenance. In this guide, we’ll walk you through the steps of installing and configuring Prometheus and Grafana to monitor your…
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. As of today there is the second prototype, called Punta Baretti. The idea is: provide a minimal, immutable, operating system, which runs containers or virtual machines and does _not_ update any packages…
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 supported, and we’re not going for any flavor of openSUSE or SUSE (that for sure will work), but for a Debian 11 client. As our server is running…
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 require fix OS releases. Having more or less daily changing packages can cause many issues. People who have upgraded from…
