- ARCHIVED: Uyuni Development

GSoC 2021
by Riya Kalra 20 May '21

20 May '21

Hi everyone! I am Riya Kalra, a 3rd year student of B.Sc (hons) computer science at University of Delhi, India. I am elated to share that I have been selected as a GSoC 2021 student with OpenSuse. This would not have been possible without the constant support and guidance of Cedric Bosdonnat and Pau Garcia Quiles. I would be working on the 'Convert virtual systems page to ReactJs' project under the mentorship of Cedric Bosdonnat. I am very delighted to be a part of the Opensuse community and looking forward to make valuable contributions to the community.

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aarch64 available for Server/Proxy for Uyuni Master
by Julio Gonzalez 17 May '21

17 May '21

Hi everyone, aarch64 is now enabled for the Master project [1]. Big thanks to Guillaume Gardet for helping us with the first steps and the initial testing! This means you can now install Uyuni Master Server on top of openSUSE Leap 15.2 aarch64 by following the instructions at https://www.uyuni-project.org/pages/devel-version.html The proxy can be installed by following the doc, and replacing x86_64 with aarch64 where appropriate (doc is not updated yet). Remember that Uyuni Master must not be used for production purposes!!!! Before we launch it as Stable, we want to gather some feedback from the community (as discussed during the last Community Hours). - If you give it a try and you don't find any issues, let's us know by replying to this email. - If you find issues, you can reply as well, but even a better alternative is creating an issue at https://github.com/uyuni-project/uyuni/issues Happy hacking! [1] https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/systemsmanagement:Uyuni:Master -- Julio González Gil Release Engineer, SUSE Manager and Uyuni jgonzalez(a)suse.com

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Coming back to open RHEL8 topics
by Stefan Bluhm 10 May '21

10 May '21

Hello all, I am trying to close the pending items from my side. 1. Can you please pick up cobbler 3.2 from upstream? This one builds on CentOS 8 https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/systemsmanagement:Uyuni:Master/cobb… 2. xstream seems to have been deleted. This one will be required back again for CentOS (but in a higher version so this might now fall into the next point). https://build.opensuse.org/project/monitor/systemsmanagement:Uyuni:Master:O… 3. I had to create 66 packages that are not available in the default CentOS8 base and appstreams. - How would you like me to go about submitting them? What are the guidelines to follow? Some of them are currently just imports of the Fedora RPMs, modified RPMs or self creations. - Some of the Java packages are created using tetra. What should I do with the kit files? Overall Current status: My test repository has now started to fail with time so it will need some rework to update on packages (at the moment I can only see xstream missing). https://www.bluhm-de.com/content/os-tools/en/applications/uyuni/installing-… Thank you and best wishes, Stefan

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Uyuni Community Hours 28.05.2021
by Pau Garcia 09 May '21

09 May '21

Uyuni Community Hours are held every last Friday of the month, at 4pm CET. The latest developments around Uyuni are presented and the community can ask question, provide feedback, request or suggest features or enhancements, etc to the Product Owner and members of the development team. Uyuni is the upstream project of SUSE Manager. ________________________________________________________________________________ Microsoft Teams meeting Join on your computer or mobile app Click here to join the meeting<https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_NDZmYWUyZWItMzhhOC00…> Or call in (audio only) +34 917 94 59 77,,946463263#<tel:+34917945977,,946463263#> Spain, Madrid Phone Conference ID: 946 463 263# Find a local number<https://dialin.teams.microsoft.com/58c3986f-4c3a-4b77-b4e8-f431171ef66d?id=…> | Reset PIN<https://mysettings.lync.com/pstnconferencing> Learn More<https://aka.ms/JoinTeamsMeeting> | Meeting options<https://teams.microsoft.com/meetingOptions/?organizerId=83d1ce03-a2c8-4530-…> ________________________________________________________________________________

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New repository: Uyuni Contrib
by Jochen Breuer 04 May '21

04 May '21

Dear Uyuni community, I'm happy to let you know that we've release the Uyuni Contrib repository [0]. Uyuni Contrib contains tools that are not part of the core Uyuni system, mainly because they address a limited audience or are too experimental to be part of the main repository. This does not preclude their usefulness. So please use them with caution! Uyuni Contrib has currently two folder: * hubtools: Tools to install and configure SUSE Manager Hub. * uyuni-tools: Collection of useful Uyuni Tools. In order to use the tools with your Uyuni installation, you can simply download and extract the ZIP file [1] from GitHub to, for example, /opt. You Uyuni installation should have all dependencies needed to run all the tools. For more information, please check the corresponding README files: * https://github.com/uyuni-project/contrib/blob/main/README.md * https://github.com/uyuni-project/contrib/blob/main/hubtools/README.md * https://github.com/uyuni-project/contrib/blob/main/uyuni-tools/README.md Happy hacking! Jochen [0] https://github.com/uyuni-project/contrib/ [1] https://github.com/uyuni-project/contrib/archive/refs/heads/main.zip -- SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH Maxfeldstr. 5 90409 Nuremberg Germany (HRB 36809, AG Nürnberg) Managing Director: Felix Imendörffer

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Uyuni 2021.04 is released!
by Julio González Gil 23 Apr '21

23 Apr '21

Hello everyone! We are happy to announce the immediate availability of Uyuni 2021.04 At https://www.uyuni-project.org/pages/stable-version.html you will find all the resources you need to start working with Uyuni 2021.04, including the release notes, documentation, requirements and setup instructions. IMPORTANT: Read the release notes. This update requires an extra manual step to adjust a dependency vendor change, and depending on your current Uyuni version some more manual steps can be required to update the Server (for example if your current version is < 2020.07) This is the list of highlights for this release: * Vendor change for some Java dependencies * Fix for potential security issue with Java RMI * New products enabled * Amazon Linux 2 clients * AlmaLinux 8 clients * Alibaba Linux 2 clients * Maintenance Windows UI * Removal of deprecated XMLRPC API methods * Reactivation keys in bootstrap scripts * Enable SAN SSL certificates * Universe Security, Multiverse, Restricted, and Backport channels for Ubuntu. * Oracle Linux UEK channel * Performance improvements * Redfish power management * OpenSCAP from SSM * Virtual network creation UI * Logging * Monitoring - Prometheus Exporter Exporter for Debian - Node Exporter Updated to 1.1.2 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 2021.04 As always, we hope you will enjoy Uyuni 2021.04 and we invite everyone of you to send us your feedback [1] and of course your patches, if you can contribute. Happy hacking! [1] 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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Uyuni Community Hours 30.04.2021
by Pau Garcia 14 Apr '21

14 Apr '21

Join us one more month to learn and discuss about Uyuni. Agenda will be published in the Uyuni wiki: https://github.com/uyuni-project/uyuni/wiki/Uyuni-Community-Hours ________________________________________________________________________________ Microsoft Teams meeting Join on your computer or mobile app Click here to join the meeting<https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_MzYzMzY2MDQtNjQwYS00…> Or call in (audio only) +34 917 94 59 77,,212741555#<tel:+34917945977,,212741555#> Spain, Madrid Phone Conference ID: 212 741 555# Find a local number<https://dialin.teams.microsoft.com/58c3986f-4c3a-4b77-b4e8-f431171ef66d?id=…> | Reset PIN<https://mysettings.lync.com/pstnconferencing> Learn More<https://aka.ms/JoinTeamsMeeting> | Meeting options<https://teams.microsoft.com/meetingOptions/?organizerId=83d1ce03-a2c8-4530-…> ________________________________________________________________________________

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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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