Posted on di 16 januari 2018 in misc • Tagged with podcast, open source, red-hat, women in tech
I've been looking forward to this for quite a while, ever since it was announced: today, the first two episodes of Command Line Heroes were published. Command Line Heroes, or CLH for short, is a series of podcasts that tells the stories of open source. It's hosted by Saron Yitbarek …
Posted on ma 10 juli 2017 in satellite • Tagged with satellite6, youtube, virt-who, vdc, subscriptions, activation-keys
In my daily work as a solutions architect for Red Hat, I regularly talk about Satellite 6 and explain to people how activation keys work, and how to best assign subscriptions to newly created virtual or physical machines.
Setting up activation keys is not rocket science, but I have learned …
Posted on ma 10 juli 2017 in dev • Tagged with centos, freeipa, idm, mock, rpm
I want to run IPA server (FreeIPA, IdM) on my Raspberry Pi 3. This allows me to connect Satellite servers, Ansible Tower servers and whatnot to an instance of IdM that I don't have to setup everytime, is always running and is actually used.
A …
Posted on ma 03 juli 2017 in article • Tagged with open source
Recently, during the OpenTechDay in Utrecht, I had the opportunity to share my passion for open source. Since I didn’t need to convince the open source audience, I decided instead to focus on the open source success story. How far have we come since the beginning and where are …
Posted on wo 21 juni 2017 in meta • Tagged with screencasts, fedora, meta
== Intro
As this is a new blog on Fedora Planet, let me start off by introducing myself briefly. My name is Maxim Burgerhout, and I have been a Fedora contributor for quite some time. Truth be told though, I haven't been able to spend much time maintaining my packages over …
Posted on wo 14 juni 2017 in event • Tagged with red hat, cdk, openshift, containers, development, java, .net, python
So last Tuesday, I presented about Red Hat's container development kit during the Red Hat Tech Day in Utrecht (NL).
Though most of the demos succeeded eventually, they all took way longer than expected due to some network issues. I'll be frank: that sucked.
I tried to make good on …
Posted on do 08 juni 2017 in satellite • Tagged with virt-who, vdc, red-hat, youtube, satellite6
At Red Hat, one of the subscription types we offer is the "virtual datacenter subscription", or VDC. A VDC offers our customers a way to run an unlimited amount of RHEL VMs on a supported hypervisor1. A requirement to run an unlimited amount of VMs on a hypervisor, is …
Posted on do 30 maart 2017 in ansible • Tagged with ansible, ansible-tower, satellite6, youtube
Today I want to talk about connecting Satellite 6 and Ansible Tower. There are two main benefits you can get right now from connecting Satellite 6 and Ansible Tower if you use both.
First of all, if you share inventory data, you share hostnames and IP addresses …
Posted on ma 13 maart 2017 in ansible • Tagged with ansible, ansible tower, youtube
With the release of Ansible Tower 3.1 a short while back, it became possible to setup Ansible Tower in a highly available, active-active topology. You do this by setting up multiple Tower nodes that talk to a shared PostgreSQL database on a separate node. This database can be setup …
Posted on di 31 januari 2017 in satellite • Tagged with youtube, satellite6, content-views, puppet
After I presented at Summit last Summer, I starting getting frequent questions around how to setup a dedicated Puppet content view in Satellite 6.
Using a dedicated Puppet content view can be useful for your organization if you are doing intensive development on your Puppet code base. This usually applies …