I am currently doing a lot of work with Ansible, AWX, Ansible Tower and Red Hat Satellite to automate and manage a RHEL 6, RHEL 7 and RHEL 8 environment. During that time I bookmarked a number of useful resources and have shared them on this page along with my notes. How to use existing […]
Red Hat Satellite 6.5 was released just after Red Hat Summit on 14 May 2019. The official blog post for the release can be found here. Time to upgrade? I recently upgraded a server from Satellite 6.4.2 to 6.5 and thought it was worth sharing some tips in case others find this useful. If you […]
Satellite 6.5 introduces a brand new feature – the Satellite Reporting engine. The default reports shipping with this release are: Applicable errata (are my servers up to date with patches?) Host Statuses Registered Hosts (IP Addresses of hosts, O/S versions, Subscriptions, etc) Subscriptions As a result, these are a very good starting point on which […]
When running Veritas Storage Foundation or Infoscale on RHEL, it is best practice to review the compatibility requirements that link the Veritas products and patches to the version of RHEL you are running. Certainly there are growing pressures in all enterprises to apply the latest Operating System patches to the environment. However, running a simple […]
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Following on from the successful RHEL8 on a ThinkPad P1 and Fedora 29 on a ThinkPad P1 installations I thought I would do a quick post on installing Fedora 30 on the ThinkPad P1. Before we begin, a couple of Fedora 30 resources which may be useful: Fedora 30 Change Set Common Fedora 30 bugs ThinkPad P1 […]
Red Hat announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 (RHEL 8) at Red Hat Summit on 7 May 2019. The following page attempts to bookmark RHEL 8 resources that might be useful for sysadmins that are looking forward to deploying this release. Official Documentation Product Documentation for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 […]
Last week Red Hat gave Satellite administrators a Valentine’s Day treat by releasing Satellite 6.4.2 on 14 February 2019. The official blog post for the release can be found here. Time to upgrade? I recently upgraded a server from Satellite 6.3.5 to 6.4.2 and thought it was worth sharing some tips in case others find […]
About 10 days ago I was lucky enough to attend the OpenShift Commons Gathering at Savoy Place in London. I’m familiar with RHEL and many of the other Red Hat products, however OpenShift is still relatively new to me. OpenShift 4 is due to become Generally Available (GA) in March or April, therefore, it was […]
Awesome post covering the Kubernetes scheduler in some detail: https://t.co/hMZxqyp0tT — robb manes (@robbmanes) December 28, 2018