March 2021 - ARCHIVED: Uyuni Development

Merging custom CentOS packages to Master
by Stefan Bluhm 07 Jul '21

07 Jul '21

Hello all, Next big activity is pushing the required CentOS 8 packages to the Uyuni Master branches. The distribution of packages to repositories on the Uyuni Server are: - Uyuni Master: 98 + Uyuni Master Other: 58 - New custom packages: 46 - EPEL: 34 - PowerTools: 50 - CentOS 8 BaseOS: 477 + CentOS 8 AppStream: 196 1) I would push my newly created custom packages including kits to "Uyuni Master Other". Are there any guidelines? Otherwise I would just split out the change log of the spec file and submit. 2) What do we do about the EPEL and PowerTools packages? I feel a bit uneasy of pushing 84 packages (+ probable build dependencies) to OPS. Especially when you consider that these packages need to be maintained and monitored for security fixes. 3) One more (not so pleasant) thought is the module system. Installation requires activation of 10 modules and deactivation of 2 more modules. If we go for loading all packages of point 2) into OBS, we might as well add the ones from the modules and create an Uyuni Server module (one per major release?). That would simplify the user experience and probably use the module system as intended (but kill maintainability...). Let me know your thoughts and ways to continue. Best wishes, Stefan

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SUSE's Hack Week, and adding new GNU/linux distributions as Uyuni clients
by Julio González Gil 22 Mar '21

22 Mar '21

Hello everyone, Today the 20th Hack Week starts at SUSE: https://hackweek.suse.com/ That means that for five days, SUSE employees can work on or learn anything they want. One of my projects for this Hack Week is an extension of my work last year, adding new GNU/Linux distributions as Uyuni Clients: https://hackweek.suse.com/20/projects/testing-gnu-slash-linux-distributions… Last year Nicola Di Marzo and I added support for Debian, Oracle and Astra Linux (still pending builds at OBS), and laid the foundations for adding Amazon Linux 2. This year my plan is complete the Amazon Linux support, and add Alma Linux, and depending on time maybe some others. But I am also available to help everyone else in the community willing to collaborate. Adding a new distribution can be easy if it's RPM or Deb based https://github.com/uyuni-project/uyuni/pull/1917 https://github.com/uyuni-project/uyuni/pull/1915 (Needless to say some exceptions can apply, for example Fedora, that ships a newer salt version and would require way more work) Besides my project, there are some others for Uyuni: https://hackweek.suse.com/20/topics/uyuni So if you want to join as and have some fun, we'll be meeting at Gitter: https://gitter.im/uyuni-project/hackweek Happy Hacking! [1] https://hackweek.suse.com/20/projects/uyuni-slash-suse-manager-windows-clie… -- Julio González Gil Release Engineer, SUSE Manager and Uyuni jgonzalez(a)suse.com

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Google Season of Docs: ideas for Uyuni?
by Pau Garcia 10 Mar '21

10 Mar '21

Hello We are going to apply to Google Season of Docs, to improve the existing documentation or write new documentation. What is missing? What can be improved? What can be enhanced? Please come up with ideas until Tuesday next week (16.03.2021). Thank you Pau Garcia Quiles SUSE Manager Product Owner & Technical Project Manager Phone: +34 91 048 7632 SUSE Software Solutions Spain

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Uyuni 2021.02 is released!
by Julio González Gil 01 Mar '21

01 Mar '21

Hello everyone! We are happy to announce the immediate availability of Uyuni 2021.02 At https://www.uyuni-project.org/pages/stable-version.html you will find all the resources you need to start working with Uyuni 2021.02, including the release notes, documentation, requirements and setup instructions. IMPORTANT: Always review the release notes and all changes since your current Uyuni version. Sometimes special procedures are needed! Some examples are if you are updating from Uyuni <= 2020.06 or if you are updating from Uyuni <= 2021.01 This is mostly a bugfix release, with a couple of important highlights: * Recent Salt CVEs remediation [1] * Prometheus exporters' reverse proxy formula Ubuntu support Please check the release notes for full details. Remember that Uyuni will follow a rolling release planning, so the next version will contain bugfixes for this one and any new features. There will be no maintenance of 2021.02 As always, we hope you will enjoy Uyuni 2021.02 and we invite everyone of you to send us your feedback [2] and of course your patches, if you can contribute. Happy hacking! [1] https://saltproject.io/security_announcements/active-saltstack-cve-release-… [2] https://www.uyuni-project.org/pages/contact.html -- Julio González Gil Release Engineer, SUSE Manager and Uyuni jgonzalez(a)suse.com

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