January 2021 - ARCHIVED: Uyuni Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Uyuni Community Hours: what's the best hour?
by Pau Garcia 08 Jan '21

08 Jan '21

Hello I'm about to create the appointments for the next months and I was wondering if last Friday of the month, 4pm CET is still the best time. What are your thoughts? Would you prefer some other week of the month, day or time? 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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Can I have an AIX Salt Minion connect to a Uyuni Salt Master?
by Luiz Da Silva 08 Jan '21

08 Jan '21

Hello list, first post. Given that IBM provides Salt packages for AIX [1], including salt-minion and salt-ssh, would AIX work as a Salt minion (or Salt client as some Uyuni docs sometimes refer to) that connects to a Uyuni Salt master? The reason why I'm asking this is because, on Saltstack, AIX usage is restricted to Saltstack Enterprise. Even downloading the minion package for AIX from Saltstack is restricted. [2] So, I was wondering, would there be any usage related or legal related restrictions regarding running Salt minion on AIX, using the IBM provided packages, and a Uyuni Salt Master? Thank you for your patience and time. Luiz Vianna Ref.: 1 - https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/aix-toolbox-linux-applications-downloads-… 2 - https://enterprise.saltstack.com/en/latest/_downloads/5b009a14c66480efccef2… - *"If you are a SaltStack Enterprise customer, you can download the AIX native minion from theSaltStack EnterpriseInstallation Guide."*

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GPG check
by Huber, Peter 07 Jan '21

07 Jan '21

Hello and a happy new year, I have a problem and I don't know how to solve this. - latest Uyuni installation, openSuse 15.2 - I added a software channel *disabled* "enable GPG checking", added a repo, *disabled* "has signed metadata". - when I try to sync this channel, I get "RepoMDError: Cannot access repository. Maybe repository GPG keys are not imported", but I disabled GPG checking.. Is this a bug, or is my config wrong? Kind regards Peter

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2020: Retrospective for an exceptional year for Uyuni
by Julio González Gil 04 Jan '21

04 Jan '21

Dear users and contributors, Now that 2020 is coming to an end, I'd like to take a quick look back at what year was for Uyuni. During 2020 we saw the community grow in numbers, not just in terms of users, but also in terms of active contributors. Now we have people helping with the translations, the documentation, the code itself (be it bugfixing or even new features), and helping other fellow users at the mailing lists or Gitter. Here are some highlights of what we all accomplished during the last 12 months: - We now release each month or two months: 8 releases this year (versus 1 in 2019 and 2 in 2018). - Since May 2020, we have been holding monthly Uyuni Community Hours meetings, with presentations both from the main contributor (SUSE) and the community. - We started a YouTube channel and populated it with videos on how to use Uyuni, translate it, test it and analyze its performance [1]. - We moved our chat from IRC to Gitter [2] - Mailing lists were moved to the new system [3] (kudos to the openSUSE Heroes team!) - Uyuni can now be translated, and that brought a lot of contributors that already did an impressive job in a number of languages. - Support for new OS as clients: CentOS/RHEL 8 (including ppc64le for CentOS 7/8), Ubuntu 20.04, Oracle Linux 6/7/8 and Debian 9/10. - A lot of improvements in monitoring with Prometheus such as: new exporters (and supported OSs), autodiscovery, federation and reverse proxy. - Grafana, which can be used (among other things) to show the status of the prometheus monotoring. - Performance improvements for repository syncing. - Uyuni Hub: allows management of several Uyuni Servers from a central one. - Recurring actions. - Usability improvements: automated database schema upgrade, autogeneration of bootstrap repositories, UI icons for child channel synchronization status, etc - New formulas and improved formulas (cpu mitigations, prometheus federation, prometheus exporters, Uyuni Hub...). - Single sign-on (SSO). - WebUI themes. - Server and Proxy were updated to openSUSE Leap 15.2, that brought salt 3000 and PostgreSQL 12 - Yomi: new installer framework for openSUSE And SUSE Linux Enterprise Linux, with formulas and forms for easy use - A port of the Server to CentOS 8 was started Keep in mind this is just a brief hightlight. The release notes [2] contain so many changes and improvements that we cannot possibly list all of them here. This was only possible thanks to the combined effort of all people from the community, SUSE and openSUSE, and we can all be proud of the results. Let me wish you all the best for the upcoming year 2021, for your personal endeavours, and for your work at Uyuni, and for all your loved ones. Keep up the good work, and remember to have a lot of fun! [1] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCB0SkZFAw9vPCFeUIYqZQ5A [2] https://gitter.im/uyuni-project [3] https://lists.uyuni-project.org/archives/?name=uyuni [4] https://www.uyuni-project.org/doc/2020.11/release-notes-uyuni-server.html -- Julio González Gil Release Engineer, SUSE Manager and Uyuni jgonzalez(a)suse.com -- Julio González Gil Release Engineer, SUSE Manager and Uyuni jgonzalez(a)suse.com

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