Enable Libvirt rw socket on RHEL9

RHEL9 by default uses read-only socket which is not usable by some tools like Kcli… to enable it use: systemctl enable --now libvirtd.socket libvirtd-ro.socket systemctl stop libvirtd.service systemctl enable --now virtproxyd.socket virtproxyd-ro.socket systemctl stop virtproxyd.service

January 12, 2023 · 1 min · Pablo Iranzo Gómez

Using Kcli to prepare for Open Cluster Management testing

Kcli allows to quickly interact with different virtualization platforms to build machines with some specific configurations, and via the use of plans it allows to automate most of the setup required to have an environment ready. In our case, let’s setup an environment to practice with Open Cluster Management but instead of using kind clusters, let’s use VM’s. Note We’ll require to setup an openshift_pull.json file for Kcli to consume when accessing the required resources for this to work....

December 23, 2022 · 5 min · Pablo Iranzo Gómez

[python] Generate ranges from items

Some years ago, I added a script for updating headers for (C) in the python files I was developing for Risu. In this way, the header got the list of authors and years working on the files updated automatically. With the pass of the years, the list started to became a bit too long, so I worked on creating code for getting ranges instead. This is the code I used:...

November 25, 2022 · 2 min · Pablo Iranzo Gómez

Automate code build and deployment with ansible

Let’s say that we want to keep our system updated with some code which is not distributed as a regular package, but as a code in a repository (which unfortunately, it’s a pretty common situation). As a part of the ansible playbooks used for the hosts, I can add a snippet like this: gitrepos: - { url: "https://github.com/myrepo/repo.git", tag: "tagtocheckout", folder: "/root/path-for-check-out", chdir: "subdir to enter", build: "make build", exec: "build/mybuiltbinary", } With this definition in the host inventory, we can then in our playbook to perform several steps:...

November 9, 2022 · 3 min · Pablo Iranzo Gómez

OpenShift's oc debug and parallel execution

A colleague reported some issues in the OpenShift troubleshooting and diagnosis scripts at OpenShift-checks. Some time ago I did contribute some changes to use functions and allow using the RISU wrapper to the scripts, helping consuming the results via RISU’s HTML interface. As my colleague reported, for some plugins, the output of the command was not shown in the HTML Interface. After some investigation, it was found that parallel execution for the plugins was causing no output to be shown, but when filtering to individual ones via risu -i XXXXXXX/plugin -l it was working fine… the problem was not the check itself, as both of them worked fine when executed individually but failed when executing them together....

November 3, 2022 · 2 min · Pablo Iranzo Gómez
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