FOSS

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:...

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....

Last year, together with my colleagues Miguel and Scott, we released with the help of Packt team the RHEL8 Administration. During this one, with the collaboration of Pedro, a long-time colleague from the University LUG, we worked on the updated Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Administration book that it’s now available for preorder on Amazon. As with the previous version, the book targets users willing to learn skills to administer Red Hat Enterprise Linux or compatible systems....

In order to setup disconnected registry for installation, follow this blog post by Daniel at Introducing Mirror Registry for Red Hat OpenShift. At the end of the process it will output something like: INFO[2022-08-19 07:10:22] Quay installed successfully, permanent data is stored in /etc/quay-install INFO[2022-08-19 07:10:22] Quay is available at https://${HOSTNAME}:8443 with credentials (init, ${PASSWORDSTRING}) Once the setup is done, remember several steps: Edit /etc/containers/registries.conf to add relevant entries for our registry as required:...

I did the RHCE exam some time ago, and still there are some tricks and advices I tell the people to bear in mind some of the things I used and that were also provided in the Red Hat Enterprise 8 Administration book: Don’t remember every step, it’s not effective, for example as I don’t recall syntax for BIND, I do remember package that has some files with examples and I use that one to check what I need to do Install mlocate and run updatedb as soon as you start, then you can use locate <file> to find out files in your system Use your preferred editor… it’s common to use vi or vim as it’s pretty standard, but if you’re used to another, make yourself comfortable in the system....