The tools that we’ve used to develop Keystone have changed a bit over the years. As I work on some long standing bugs, I’ve had to learn what the latest tools are, and how to use them. Recently I had to track down the cause of a failed Tempest run. Here are the steps I went through to find the trace.
DevOps requires that everything goes into Revision Control. CloudForms’ modifications are no exception. But how do you revision control something that is managed by a GUI and stored in a database? Import and export with the command line. Here’s how.
Summary: Firefox allows me to store passwords locally, encrypted, and password protected. Chrome wants to store passwords on line, which is not acceptable.
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While I like the functionality of the todo.txt structure, I do not like the fact that done tasks stay in my todo list in perpetuity, and I also don’t want to lose them. So, I’ve made a simple hack that allows me to move done items to a done folder. Here’s the code:
#!/bin/sh awk '/^x/ {print $0}' ~/Dropbox/todo/todo.txt >> ~/Dropbox/todo/done.txt awk '!/^x/ {print $0}' ~/Dropbox/todo/todo.txt > ~/Dropbox/todo/todo2.txt mv ~/Dropbox/todo/todo2.txt ~/Dropbox/todo/todo.txt |
I call it todo_done.sh.
I copied my original to /tmp/pre in order to test and make sure I have a backup. After running todo_done.sh I get:
$ diff -u /tmp/pre/todo.txt ~/Dropbox/todo/todo.txt --- /tmp/pre/todo.txt 2017-11-15 17:46:21.794510999 -0500 +++ /home/ayoung/Dropbox/todo/todo.txt 2017-11-15 17:46:24.584515043 -0500 @@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ 2017-10-02 Expenses 2017-10-04 Containerize hammer 2017-10-06 Complete steam setup -x 2017-10-12 Trrc time resource reduce cost 2017-10-12 Whiteboard training 2017-10-14 Subscription manager extensions for skis or products? 2017-10-15 Workcenter is made up of 4 things: machine, man, method, measures. |
and
$ diff -u /tmp/pre/done.txt ~/Dropbox/todo/done.txt --- /tmp/pre/done.txt 2017-11-15 17:46:17.914505377 -0500 +++ /home/ayoung/Dropbox/todo/done.txt 2017-11-15 17:46:24.580515037 -0500 @@ -26,3 +26,4 @@ x 2017-10-19 Drs appt? x 2017-11-02 Letter of Support x 2017-11-15 2017-09-27 LinkedIn TJX +x 2017-10-12 Trrc time resource reduce cost |
One of the largest value propositions of DevOps is the concept of Self Service provisioning. If you can remove human interaction from resource allocation, you can reduce both the response time and the likelihood of error in configuration. Red Hat CloudForms has a self service feature that allows a user to select from predefined services. You may wish to show different users different catalog items. This might be for security reasons, such as the set of credentials required and provided, or merely to reduce clutter and focus the end user on specific catalog items. Perhaps some items are still undergoing testing and are not ready for general consumption.
Obviously, these predefined services may not match your entire user population.
I’ve been working on setting up a CloudForms instance where members of different groups see different service catalogs. Here is what I did.
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Ten Years later, and I finally know how to get virsh to tell me the IP address for a VM.
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Spent a good chunk of yesterday and some of this morning stumped by a simple mistake I made. I was trying to use our Satellite server via the Hammer command line tool to launch an instance, and kept getting and error in the content-view section. I tried to list content views and got the same problem. Here is a short section from my bash session.
“Ooops.” — Me, doing something as admin that I didn’t mean to do.
While the sudo mechanism has some warranted criticism, it is still an improvement on doing everything as the root account. The essential addition that sudo provides for the average sys admin is the ability to only grant themselves system admin when they explicitly want it.
I had a simple todo list I managed using shell scripts and git, but I wanted something for the Cell phone. The todo.txt application fills that need now. But I was able to reuse something from my old approach to make it a little more command line friendly.
Continue readingToday is my first day at Red Hat! Well, OK, I’ve been here a few years, but today I move from Engineering to Sales. My new role is “Specialist Solutions Architect” where that specialty is Cloud.
I have a lot to learn, and I will try to use this site to record the most important and interesting details I learn.
What are the Cloud Products? well, according to Red Hat’s site, they are (please mentally prepend Red Hat to all of these) OpenStack Platform, OpenShift, CloudForms, Virtualization, Certificate System, Directory Server, as well as products bundles built out of these. Of these all, I’d guess I have the most to learn about CloudForms, as I’ve only recently started working with that. Really, though, I have a lot to learn across the board. I know that both Ansible Tower and Satellite server are major integration points for management of servers in the large, and I’ll be expected to provide expertise there as well. Plus, everything builds on the other product lines: RHEL and variants, as well as the Storage and Networking solutions.
This is going to be fun. Time to dig in.