Testing and adding GNU/Linux distributions on Uyuni
a project by juliogonzalezgil
Updated 18 days ago. 16 hacker ♥️. 13 followers.

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Uyuni is a configuration and infrastructure management tool that saves you time and headaches when you have to manage and update tens, hundreds or even thousands of machines. It also manages configuration, can run audits, build image containers, monitor and much more!

Currently there are a few distributions that are completely untested on Uyuni or SUSE Manager (AFAIK) or just not tested since a long time, and could be interesting knowing how hard would be working with them and, if possible, fix whatever is broken.

For newcomers, the easiest distributions are those based on DEB or RPM packages. Distributions with other package formats are doable, but will require adapting the Python and Java code to be able to sync and analyze such packages (and if salt does not support those packages, it will need changes as well). So if you want a distribution with other packages, make sure you are comfortable handling such changes.

No developer experience? No worries! We had non-developers contributors in the past, and we are ready to help as long as you are willing to learn. If you don't want to code at all, you can also help us preparing the documentation after someone else has the initial code ready, or you could also help with testing :-)

The idea is testing Salt and Salt-ssh clients, but NOT traditional clients, which are deprecated.

To consider that a distribution has basic support, we should cover at least (points 3-6 are to be tested for both salt minions and salt ssh minions):

  1. Reposync (this will require using spacewalk-common-channels and adding channels to the .ini file)
  2. Onboarding (salt minion from UI, salt minion from bootstrap scritp, and salt-ssh minion) (this will probably require adding OS to the bootstrap repository creator)
  3. Package management (install, remove, update...)
  4. Patching
  5. Applying any basic salt state (including a formula)
  6. Salt remote commands
  7. Bonus point: Java part for product identification, and monitoring enablement
  8. Bonus point: sumaform enablement (https://github.com/uyuni-project/sumaform)
  9. Bonus point: Documentation (https://github.com/uyuni-project/uyuni-docs)
  10. Bonus point: testsuite enablement (https://github.com/uyuni-project/uyuni/tree/master/testsuite)

If something is breaking: we can try to fix it, but the main idea is research how supported it is right now. Beyond that it's up to each project member how much to hack :-)

  • If you don't have knowledge about some of the steps: ask the team
  • If you still don't know what to do: switch to another distribution and keep testing.

This card is for EVERYONE, not just developers. Seriously! We had people from other teams helping that were not developers, and added support for Debian and new SUSE Linux Enterprise and openSUSE Leap versions :-)

Pending

FUSS

FUSS is a complete GNU/Linux solution (server, client and desktop/standalone) based on Debian for managing an educational network.

https://fuss.bz.it/

Seems to be a Debian 12 derivative, so adding it could be quite easy.

  • [W] Reposync (this will require using spacewalk-common-channels and adding channels to the .ini file)
  • [W] Onboarding (salt minion from UI, salt minion from bootstrap script, and salt-ssh minion) (this will probably require adding OS to the bootstrap repository creator) --> Working for all 3 options (salt minion UI, salt minion bootstrap script and salt-ssh minion from the UI).
  • [W] Package management (install, remove, update...) --> Installing a new package works, needs to test the rest.
  • [I] Patching (if patch information is available, could require writing some code to parse it, but IIRC we have support for Ubuntu already). No patches detected. Do we support patches for Debian at all?
  • [W] Applying any basic salt state (including a formula)
  • [W] Salt remote commands
  • [ ] Bonus point: Java part for product identification, and monitoring enablement
  • [ ] Bonus point: sumaform enablement (https://github.com/uyuni-project/sumaform)
  • [ ] Bonus point: Documentation (https://github.com/uyuni-project/uyuni-docs)
  • [ ] Bonus point: testsuite enablement (https://github.com/uyuni-project/uyuni/tree/master/testsuite)

PR: https://github.com/uyuni-project/uyuni/pull/9502

It's basically a Debian 12. I don't even know whether it makes sense to separate it. root@fuss-12:/tmp# cat /etc/os-release PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)" NAME="Debian GNU/Linux" VERSION_ID="12" VERSION="12 (bookworm)" VERSION_CODENAME=bookworm ID=debian HOME_URL="https://www.debian.org/" SUPPORT_URL="https://www.debian.org/support" BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.debian.org/" root@fuss-12:/tmp# venv-salt-call grains.items| grep -v osvw|grep -A 1 " os" os: Debian os_family: Debian osarch: amd64 oscodename: bookworm osfinger: Debian-12 osfullname: Debian GNU/Linux osmajorrelease: 12 osrelease: 12 osrelease_info: - 12

openSUSE Leap 16

The distribution will all love!

https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Roadmap#DRAFTScheduleforLeap16.0

If we are lucky, we'll get an alpha in time for Hack Week

Will be based on SUSE Linux Enterprise 16.0.

  • [W] Reposync (this will require using spacewalk-common-channels and adding channels to the .ini file)
  • [W] Onboarding (salt minion from UI, salt minion from bootstrap scritp, and salt-ssh minion) (this will probably require adding OS to the bootstrap repository creator)
  • [W] Package management (install, remove, update...). Works, even reboot requirement detection
  • [ ] Patching (if patch information is available, could require writing some code to parse it, but IIRC we have support for Ubuntu already) Could not test patches, none available for now
  • [W] Applying any basic salt state (including a formula) Locale formula to adjust TZ to UTC,a nd apply highstate
  • [W] Salt remote commands
  • [W] Bonus point: Java part for product identification. I did not do any enablements, as I guess it's still not clear what we'll do. But I added the new SLFO GPG key for package identification
  • [ ] Bonus point: sumaform enablement (https://github.com/uyuni-project/sumaform) Not for now, it's way too early
  • [W] Bonus point: Documentation (https://github.com/uyuni-project/uyuni-docs) https://github.com/uyuni-project/uyuni-docs/pull/3468
  • [ ] Bonus point: testsuite enablement (https://github.com/uyuni-project/uyuni/tree/master/testsuite) Not for now, it's way too early

Resources:

  • Research card: https://github.com/uyuni-project/uyuni-docs/pull/3468
  • PR: https://github.com/uyuni-project/uyuni/pull/9491
  • PR for doc: https://github.com/uyuni-project/uyuni-docs/pull/3468

Zorin OS

In particular the Education version (https://help.zorin.com/docs/getting-started/system-requirements/ and https://zorin.com/os/education/)

Because of the IDLINK and the UBUNTUCODENAME values, it should be compatible with the bundle and client tools for Ubuntu 22.04 out of the box.

  • [ ] Reposync (this will require using spacewalk-common-channels and adding channels to the .ini file)
  • [ ] Onboarding (salt minion from UI, salt minion from bootstrap script, and salt-ssh minion) (this will probably require adding OS to the bootstrap repository creator)
  • [ ] Package management (install, remove, update...)
  • [ ] Patching (if patch information is available, could require writing some code to parse it, but IIRC we have support for Ubuntu already)
  • [ ] Applying any basic salt state (including a formula)
  • [ ] Salt remote commands
  • [ ] Bonus point: Java part for product identification, and monitoring enablement
  • [ ] Bonus point: sumaform enablement (https://github.com/uyuni-project/sumaform)
  • [ ] Bonus point: Documentation (https://github.com/uyuni-project/uyuni-docs)
  • [ ] Bonus point: testsuite enablement (https://github.com/uyuni-project/uyuni/tree/master/testsuite)

It's a distro based on Ubuntu. This is the content of /etc/os-release: PRETTY_NAME="Zorin OS 17.2" NAME="Zorin OS" VERSION_ID="17" VERSION="17.2" VERSION_CODENAME=jammy ID=zorin ID_LIKE="ubuntu debian" HOME_URL="https://zorin.com/os/" SUPPORT_URL="https://help.zorin.com/" BUG_REPORT_URL="https://zorin.com/os/feedback/" PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://zorin.com/legal/privacy/" UBUNTU_CODENAME=jammy

In progress

openSUSE MicroOS

https://microos.opensuse.org/

PRs: https://github.com/uyuni-project/uyuni/pull/6550 and https://github.com/uyuni-project/uyuni/pull/7858 Doc for the PoC: https://github.com/uyuni-project/uyuni/wiki/openSUSE-Tumbleweed-and-openSUSE-MicroOS-for-Uyuni

Check the doc to see what works, and what does not

NOTE: Broken for now because of SELinux, see the link above about the PoC.

  • [W] Reposync (this will require using spacewalk-common-channels and adding channels to the .ini file)
  • [W] Onboarding (salt minion from UI, salt minion from bootstrap scritp, and salt-ssh minion) (this will probably require adding OS to the bootstrap repository creator)
  • [P] Package management (install, remove, update...) See the doc above
  • [ ] Patching No tests available for testing
  • [P] Applying any basic salt state (including a formula) See the doc above
  • [W] Salt remote commands
  • [ ] Bonus point: Java part for product identification, and monitoring enablement
  • [ ] Bonus point: sumaform enablement (https://github.com/uyuni-project/sumaform)
  • [ ] Bonus point: Documentation (https://github.com/uyuni-project/uyuni-docs)
  • [ ] Bonus point: testsuite enablement (https://github.com/uyuni-project/uyuni/tree/master/testsuite)

A transactional OS, similar to SLE Micro but based on openSUSE Tumbleweed. Supporting it could be problematic, because of the bundle extra work, but we can at least give it a try.

Astra Linux

https://astralinux.ru/en/

PR: https://github.com/uyuni-project/uyuni/pull/1915

Originally it was a GNU/Linux developed for the Russian army and intelligence agencies, but it now offers a free (as in free beer) version for general usage. It is based on Debian GNU/Linux, so maybe getting some basic support will not be that hard.

Our team in Russia told me about it, so I joined their Telegram support channel some months ago.

Right now there are more than 1600 users at their Telegram channel (linked to Matrix.org with a bridge, which I suspect is what most of the users use) with a lot of traffic each day talking not only about support, but also about news regarding the distribution.

The distribution is now Linux Foundation Corporate Member (Silver).

  • [W] Reposync (this will require using spacewalk-common-channels and adding channels to the .ini file)
    1. After adding the repositories to spacewalk-common-channels works fine.
  • [W] Onboarding (both salt and salt-ssh)
    1. WebUI works (salt and salt-ssh), with some caveats: https://github.com/uyuni-project/uyuni/pull/1915
    2. I can bootstrap using a script.
  • [W] Package management
    1. Works!
  • [ ] Patching
    1. Can't test yet, no patches available.
  • [W] Applying any basic salt state
    1. Works!
  • [W] Salt remote commands
    1. Works!

Already implemented in past Hack Weeks

  • Amazon Linux 2023
  • Raspbian/Raspberry Pi OS 12
  • openEuler (22.03)
  • openSUSE Leap Micro
  • openSUSE Leap 15.5
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP5
  • Ubuntu 22.04
  • AlmaLinux9
  • Oracle Linux 9
  • AlmaLinux8
  • Alibaba Cloud Linux 2
  • Oracle Linux 6/7/8
  • Debian 10/9

Others

Interested on testing other distributions? Ping me and let's try.

[W] = works [F] = Fails [P] = in Progress [I] = Ignored (state the reason)

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    • nicoladm
      almost 5 years ago by nicoladm | Reply

      Hi, nice project. I was trying to help with the debian 9 onboarding testing https://github.com/uyuni-project/uyuni/issues/1356 since the process is still fairly manual. Looks like mgr-create-bootstrap-repo needs tweaking https://github.com/uyuni-project/uyuni/issues/1495 i am not a developer but i can probably tweak scripts and help with some guidance

    • juliogonzalezgil
      almost 5 years ago by juliogonzalezgil | Reply

      Hi @nicoladm

      If that's the only think that's failing, it's not so hard to fix.

      The packages to be added to a bootstrap repository by mgr-create-bootstra-repo are at https://github.com/uyuni-project/uyuni/blob/master/susemanager/src/mgrbootstrapdata.py

      You just need to add a new variable PKGLISTDEBIAN9 with the list of packages required to bootstrap with salt (salt itself and all dependencies). Most probably the list will be similar to Ubuntu18.04.

      Then at DATA you need a new entry debian8-amd64-uyuni (similar to ubuntu-18.04-amd64-uyuni) using the basechannel debian-9-pool-amd64 and adapting the rest.

      And finally, you maybe you will need to adjust https://github.com/uyuni-project/uyuni/tree/master/susemanager-utils/susemanager-sls/salt/bootstrap (specifically init.sls) if the bootstrap procedure itself fails to find the repository.

      It would be good if you can add both Debian9 and Debian10 :-)

      • nicoladm
        almost 5 years ago by nicoladm | Reply

        systems used: KVM VM openSUSE Leap 15.1 with Uyuni 2020.01 KVM VM debian 9.9 Salt minion version: salt-minion2019.2.0+ds-1all.deb

        NOTE: The following repo as mentioned by mateiw on github should contain the patch for salt-minion deb package that suppose to fix the problems related with removing/disabling Debian repos during the bootstrap hence i am using this version salt patch (https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/systemsmanagement:saltstack:products:testing:debian/salt): https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement:/saltstack:/products:/testing:/debian/Debian_10/

        Debian 9 repos synced successfully, created a test/qa channel using the Content lifecycle section and created an activation key (1-qa-debian9-test) with the qa channels added to it.

        spacecmd softwarechannel_listchildchannels 

debian-9-amd64-main-security
debian-9-amd64-main-updates
debian9-opensuse-salt
debian9-servers-qa-debian9-debian-9-amd64-main-security
debian9-servers-qa-debian9-debian-9-amd64-main-updates
debian9-servers-qa-debian9-debian9-opensuse-salt

spacecmd activationkey_listchildchannels 1-qa-debian9-test

debian9-servers-qa-debian9-debian-9-amd64-main-security
debian9-servers-qa-debian9-debian-9-amd64-main-updates
debian9-servers-qa-debian9-debian9-opensuse-salt

        After the bootstrap the file pushed by salt is empty.

        /etc/apt/sources.list.d/susemanager\:channels.list

        First question that is puzzling me: Is it normal that the channels are not subscribed automatically even if the activation key has the debian channells assigned correctly? Has this something to do with the susemanager-sls state you have mentioned right?

        I will have a closer look to the below files on the uyuni server tomorrow and start play with them

        /usr/share/susemanager/mgr_bootstrap_data.py
/usr/sbin/mgr-create-bootstrap-repo

        • juliogonzalezgil
          almost 5 years ago by juliogonzalezgil | Reply

          What's the content of /etc/apt/sources.list.d/susemanager\:channels.list

          > Is it normal that the channels are not subscribed automatically even if the activation key has the debian channells assigned correctly?

          Well, if the activation key had the channels assigned BEFORE the onboarding, then that's a bug.

          If you add channels to an activation key AFTER the onboarding, then already onboarded clients will not get the channels.

          • nicoladm
            almost 5 years ago by nicoladm | Reply

            >What's the content of /etc/apt/sources.list.d/susemanager:channels.list

            root@debian9-uyuni:~# cat /etc/apt/sources.list/susemanager\:channels.list 
# Channels managed by SUSE Manager
# Do not edit this file, changes will be overwritten

            To double check I have tried to deselect and reselect the debian channels from the activation key and bootstrapped again and i can confirm I had the same behaviour - i needed to manually subscribe the channels from Systems --> Debian host --> Software --> Software channels because shown as none, disable service.

            Where is the place to raise this bug?

            • juliogonzalezgil
              almost 5 years ago by juliogonzalezgil | Reply

              Did the onboarding complete without issues?

              • nicoladm
                almost 5 years ago by nicoladm | Reply

                Not yet, at least not automatically.

                I am facing like a chicken and the egg situation where i need salt-minion-2019.2.0+ds-1.all-deb to be installed in order for the bootstrap to work properly (disable default debian channels and assign the susemanager channels and so on).

                I am looking at the bootstrap script there might be something we need to tweak there as well which is failing with:

                pkg_|-salt-minion-package_|-salt-minion_|-latest(retcode=2): No     information found for 'salt-minion'. file_|-/etc/salt/minion.d/susemanager.conf_|-/etc/salt/minion.d/susemanager.conf_|-managed(retcode=2): One or more requisite failed: bootstrap.salt-minion-package file_|-/etc/salt/pki/minion/minion.pub_|-/etc/salt/pki/minion/minion.pub_|-managed(retcode=2): One or more requisite failed: bootstrap.salt-minion-package service_|-salt-minion_|-salt-minion_|-running(retcode=2): One or more requisite failed: bootstrap.salt-minion-package, bootstrap./etc/salt/pki/minion/minion.pem, bootstrap./etc/salt/minion.d/susemanager.conf, bootstrap./etc/salt/pki/minion/minion.pub, bootstrap./etc/salt/minion_id file_|-/etc/salt/minion_id_|-/etc/salt/minion_id_|-managed(retcode=2): One or more requisite failed: bootstrap.salt-minion-package file_|-/etc/salt/pki/minion/minion.pem_|-/etc/salt/pki/minion/minion.pem_|-managed(retcode=2): One or more requisite failed: bootstrap.salt-minion-package<\code>

                Regarding the mgr-bootstrap i made the changes you suggested to /usr/share/susemanager/mgrbootstrapdata.py and it seems to be working fine:

                mgr-create-bootstrap-repo --with-custom-channels
1. SLE-12-SP4-x86_64
2. debian9-amd64-uyuni
Enter a number of a product label: 2
Creating bootstrap repo for debian9-amd64-uyuni

copy 'libsodium18-1.0.11-2.amd64-deb'
copy 'dctrl-tools-2.24-2+b1.amd64-deb'
copy 'libzmq5-4.2.1-4+deb9u2.amd64-deb'
copy 'python-chardet-2.3.0-2.all-deb'
copy 'python-croniter-0.3.12-2.all-deb'
copy 'python-crypto-2.6.1-7.amd64-deb'
copy 'python-dateutil-2.5.3-2.all-deb'
copy 'python-enum34-1.1.6-1.all-deb'
copy 'python-ipaddress-1.0.17-1.all-deb'
copy 'python-jinja2-2.8-1.all-deb'
copy 'python-markupsafe-0.23-3.amd64-deb'
copy 'python-minimal-2.7.13-2.amd64-deb'
copy 'python-msgpack-0.4.8-1.amd64-deb'
copy 'python-openssl-16.2.0-1.all-deb'
copy 'python-pkg-resources-33.1.1-1.all-deb'
copy 'python-psutil-5.0.1-1.amd64-deb'
copy 'python-requests-2.12.4-1.all-deb'
copy 'python-six-1.10.0-3.all-deb'
copy 'python-systemd-233-1.amd64-deb'
copy 'python-tornado-4.4.3-1.amd64-deb'
copy 'python-tz-2016.7-0.3.all-deb'
copy 'python-urllib3-1.19.1-1.all-deb'
copy 'python-yaml-3.12-1.amd64-deb'
copy 'python-zmq-16.0.2-2.amd64-deb'
copy 'python-pycurl-7.43.0-2.amd64-deb'
copy 'salt-common-2019.2.0+ds-1.all-deb'
copy 'salt-minion-2019.2.0+ds-1.all-deb'
copy 'dmidecode-3.0-4.amd64-deb'
Exporting indices...

ll /srv/www/htdocs/pub/repositories/debian/9/bootstrap/
 total 0
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root  26 Feb 11 23:21 conf
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 154 Feb 11 23:21 db
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root  18 Feb 11 23:21 dists
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root   8 Feb 11 23:21 pool

                • juliogonzalezgil
                  almost 5 years ago by juliogonzalezgil | Reply

                  > Is it normal that the channels are not subscribed automatically even if the activation key has the debian channells assigned correctly?

                  Then in this case, I think it normal. The first thing the bootstraping does is disabling the repositories, and then add the bootstrap repository.

                  no information found for 'salt-minion' seems to show that the package was not found, despite I can at the log you offer.

                  First, check that you can find the package at /srv/www/htdocs/pub/repositories/debian/9/bootstrap/(most probably you will).

                  If that's the case, then it's time to check the susemanage-sls package, as there is where the association between an OS and the bootstrap repository happens, according to the salt grains available during bootstrap (check susemanager-utils/susemanager-sls/salt/bootstrap/).

                  Maybe a patch is needed there, most probably at the init.sls file.

                  • juliogonzalezgil
                    almost 5 years ago by juliogonzalezgil | Reply

                    BTW, if you can join Rocket.chat maybe we'll be able to collaborate faster than only using the website :-)

    • juliogonzalezgil
      almost 5 years ago by juliogonzalezgil | Reply

      Having a look at Amazon Linux 2 already :-)

      • juliogonzalezgil
        almost 4 years ago by juliogonzalezgil | Reply

        Just discovered that Amazon Linux 2 is now publishing XML information, and not just sqlite:

        http://amazonlinux.default.amazonaws.com/2/core/2.0/x8664/34112b4f91c3e1ecf2b2e90cfd565b12690fa3c6a3e71a5ac19029d2a9bd3869/repodata/repomd.xml http://amazonlinux.default.amazonaws.com/2/core/2.0/x8664/34112b4f91c3e1ecf2b2e90cfd565b12690fa3c6a3e71a5ac19029d2a9bd3869/repodata/primary.xml.gz

        So it seems we I will be able to bring this back to life without maybe any changes to reposync.

        Plan is reopen my PR, test again, and if it works see if I can fix the product detection (no promisies) and some more stuff.

        As for Astra Linux, let's see if I can convince OBS guys to fix the repos they added, so I can enable for Uyuni.

    • nicoladm
      almost 5 years ago by nicoladm | Reply

      @juliogonzalezgil thanks Julio for the suggestions!! will start to do some testing hopefully this afternoon/evening

    • Pharaoh_Atem
      almost 5 years ago by Pharaoh_Atem | Reply

      @juliogonzalezgil What about OpenMandriva? They seem interesting... add-emoji

    • juliogonzalezgil
      almost 5 years ago by juliogonzalezgil | Reply

      @Pharaoh_Atem join and try :-D

      So far I will be happy if can complete Amazon Linux, Astra Linux and (maybe) Oracle Linux. No more time during this hackweek :-\

      So either for next hackweek, or you (or someone else) can have a look :-)

      • juliogonzalezgil
        almost 5 years ago by juliogonzalezgil | Reply

        For reference, we are using a rocket.chat channel as so far only Nicola and I working on this.

        If someone from the community wants to join during this hackweek, we can move to Freenode or Gitter.

    • truquaeb
      over 4 years ago by truquaeb | Reply

      I'm trying to move away from Spacewalk, but getting stuck with my Fedora clients. It seems there aren't Uyuni client tools built for Fedora, I've got the repo's syncing and salt seems to work, machines are registered. Can't access the susemanager repos. I assume client tools need to be built, but where can I start?

      • juliogonzalezgil
        over 4 years ago by juliogonzalezgil | Reply

        Well, that depends. New distributions will only support salt (unless community actually takes care of maintaining traditional for them)

        You could start by creating an OBS repository based on Fedora and try to build salt there. You can use https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/systemsmanagement:Uyuni:Master:CentOS8-Uyuni-Client-Tools as inspiration.

        But I guess we'd also need changes at other packages, so Uyuni is able to recognize this new distribution. My PR to Add Astra Linux (https://github.com/uyuni-project/uyuni/pull/1915) can also be used as insperation (Astra Linux is Debian Based, but even with this in mind, it can be of help).

    • pagarcia
      almost 4 years ago by pagarcia | Reply

      More to add: Alibaba Cloud Linux 2 (WIP here: https://github.com/paususe/uyuni/commits/paususe-aliyun), Alma Linux and Rocky Linux.

      • juliogonzalezgil
        almost 4 years ago by juliogonzalezgil | Reply

        As soon as we have someone to take care of them, I will add them :-)

        I understand you want to take care of Alibaba, right @pagarcia?

        • pagarcia
          almost 4 years ago by pagarcia | Reply

          Yes, I will try to have Alibaba Cloud Linux 2 done before Hackweek even.

          • juliogonzalezgil
            almost 4 years ago by juliogonzalezgil | Reply

            Alibaba Clolud Linux 2 added, with all checkboxes. Please add join the project, using the button above.

            If you will also handle Alma, let me know and I'll add it.

            • pagarcia
              over 3 years ago by pagarcia | Reply

              Other than traditional stack (untested), everything else tested and works for Alibaba Cloud Linux 2

    • juliogonzalezgil
      over 2 years ago by juliogonzalezgil | Reply

      Project is updated, in preparation for Hackweek 21.

      As always, we can add more distributions if someone wants to work on them. I plan to focus on finishing Ubuntu 22.04, and testing AlmaLinux9 :-)

    • juliogonzalezgil
      almost 2 years ago by juliogonzalezgil | Reply

      For reference, project is now updated with the plans for Hackweek 22.

      Same as always, we can add more distributions if someone wants to work on them.

      For now the plans are: - OpenEuler - openSUSE Leap Micro and openSUSE MicroOS - openSUSE Leap 15.5 and SLES 15 SP5

    • smflood
      almost 2 years ago by smflood | Reply

      Please can someone correct the SUSE spacewalk GitHub links for openSUSE Leap Micro ( https://github.com/SUSE/spacewalk/issues/20349 and https://github.com/SUSE/spacewalk/issues/20306 ) as they both give "Page not found"

      • juliogonzalezgil
        almost 2 years ago by juliogonzalezgil | Reply

        Yes, I reused things reported for SUSE Manager, and those are private. But they are described at https://github.com/uyuni-project/uyuni/pull/6550

    • juliogonzalezgil
      almost 2 years ago by juliogonzalezgil | Reply

      Closing for now, and reopening for next hackweek.

      For this hackweek: - Support for SLE1SP5 and openSUSE Leap 15.5 is added (pending merging) - Support for openSUSE Leap Micro 5.3 is almost there, we just need a fix for the bootstrap problem to have the basic stuff (under research), and then the other fixes that are common for SLE Micro as well. - Support for openSUSE MicroOS is not there, but we'll see if we can get the bundle built in the next few months, as PoC.

    • raulosuna
      about 1 year ago by raulosuna | Reply

      I'll be doing raspbian (or any similar alternative) in the next hackweek (apart from any missing remainings from openEuler).

      • juliogonzalezgil
        about 1 year ago by juliogonzalezgil | Reply

        Added to the description :-)

    • deneb_alpha
      about 1 year ago by deneb_alpha | Reply

      hello @juliogonzalezgil, for this hackweek I would like to work on adding Zorin OS. In particular I would like to enable the Education version.

      Some details:

      • https://help.zorin.com/docs/getting-started/system-requirements/
      • https://zorin.com/os/education/

      It's a distro based on Ubuntu. This is the /etc/os-release:

      • NAME="Zorin OS"
      • VERSION="16.3"
      • ID=zorin
      • ID_LIKE=ubuntu
      • PRETTY_NAME="Zorin OS 16.3"
      • VERSION_ID="16"
      • HOME_URL="https://zorin.com/os/"
      • SUPPORT_URL="https://help.zorin.com/"
      • BUGREPORTURL="https://zorin.com/os/feedback/"
      • PRIVACYPOLICYURL="https://zorin.com/legal/privacy/"
      • VERSION_CODENAME=focal
      • UBUNTU_CODENAME=focal

    • juliogonzalezgil
      about 1 year ago by juliogonzalezgil | Reply

      Just for reference, the project is updated and ready for Hackweek 23. But if anyone wants to explore more OS, please add comments, as @deneb_alpha did :-)

    • juliogonzalezgil
      about 1 year ago by juliogonzalezgil | Reply

      Completed this hack week: - Amazon Linux 2023 - Raspberry Pi OS 12

      Progress on: - openEuler - openSUSE Tumbleweed and openSUSE MicroOS (PoC)

    • juliogonzalezgil
      about 2 months ago by juliogonzalezgil | Reply

      For awareness: I updated the project for Hack Week 24.

      As usual: if anyone wants to explore more OS, rather than those suggested, just comment here :-)

    • juliogonzalezgil
      29 days ago by juliogonzalezgil | Reply

      Progress for me:

      • Code and doc for openSUSE Leap 16.0, done (links at the desc above). With that, a bug report to agama, one fix for the uyuni site, one for the doc, one problem reported to the openSUSE Leap releng about /etc/os-release for Leap.
      • openSUSE Tumbleweed and MicroOS, did some extra testing, but could not complete what was done last year. SELinux breaks the bundle at MicrOOS, and probably at Tumbleweed (Tumbleweed does not enable it by default)
      • Helped a bit Raul with FUSS, and a bit Marina with Zorin OS.

    • lkocman
      24 days ago by lkocman | Reply

      The Leap release will get fixed. It will be identified as openSUSE Leap.

    • raulosuna
      24 days ago by raulosuna | Reply

      Work during the hackweek regarding FUSS:

      • Reposync working
      • Onboarding works from the UI. Need to test bootstrap script and salt-ssh minion
      • Installing a new package works. Need to test updates and removals.
      • Everything else needs to be tested, but being a 1:1 clone of Debian 12 I don't expect any issues.

      Hope to be able to continue work during next Learning Tuesday (Dec. 3rd). PR (draft): https://github.com/uyuni-project/uyuni/pull/9502

    • deneb_alpha
      24 days ago by deneb_alpha | Reply

      I didn't have a complete week to focus on hackweek due to some releases to be done at the beginning of the week.

      For the Zorin OS 17.2 support, this is where we are now:

      • research how the OS is designed (3 "flavors" with different set of packages) The "base OS" is Ubuntu 22.04 but they enhance it with additional repos and more updated packages.
      • The salt bundle used for Ubuntu 22.04 works for installing/removing/searching packages, but salt needs a patch.
      • I researched how to contribute to salt and what to change in the code for supporting Zorin OS. The patch is ready and the code works locally. the patch needs to be finalized with tests and submitted to upstream salt. The channels changes are ready, there are several additional repos to be added and a few more additional GPG keys too.

      Initial draft PR: https://github.com/uyuni-project/uyuni/pull/9510

      I'll continue to work on it during the next Learning Tuesday (Dec 3rd) The initial work will be presented at the next Uyuni Community Hours on Nov 28th.

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    • "Trio programming" with AI assistance: Our "trio programming" approach—two developers and GitHub Copilot—was a standout success, especially in handling slightly-repetitive but not-quite-exactly-copypaste tasks. Java as a language tends to be verbose and we found it to be fitting particularly well.
    • AI tools for reporting and documentation: We extensively used AI chatbots to streamline writing and reporting. (Including writing this report! ...but this note was added manually during edit!)
    • GPU compute expertise: Overcoming challenges with CUDA drivers and cloud infrastructure deepened our understanding of GPU-accelerated workloads in the open-source ecosystem.
    • Game design as a learning platform: By blending AI techniques with creative game design, we learned not only about AI strategies but also about making games fun, engaging, and balanced.

    Last but not least we had a lot of fun! ...and this was definitely not a chatbot generated line!

    The Context: AI + Board Games

    Make more sense of openQA test results using AI by livdywan

    Description

    AI has the potential to help with something many of us spend a lot of time doing which is making sense of openQA logs when a job fails.

    User Story

    Allison Average has a puzzled look on their face while staring at log files that seem to make little sense. Is this a known issue, something completely new or maybe related to infrastructure changes?

    Goals

    • Leverage a chat interface to help Allison
    • Create a model from scratch based on data from openQA
    • Proof of concept for automated analysis of openQA test results

    Bonus

    • Use AI to suggest solutions to merge conflicts
      • This would need a merge conflict editor that can suggest solving the conflict
    • Use image recognition for needles

    Resources

    Timeline

    Day 1

    • Conversing with open-webui to teach me how to create a model based on openQA test results

    Day 2

    Highlights

    • I briefly tested compared models to see if they would make me more productive. Between llama, gemma and mistral there was no amazing difference in the results for my case.
    • Convincing the chat interface to produce code specific to my use case required very explicit instructions.
    • Asking for advice on how to use open-webui itself better was frustratingly unfruitful both in trivial and more advanced regards.
    • Documentation on source materials used by LLM's and tools for this purpose seems virtually non-existent - specifically if a logo can be generated based on particular licenses

    Outcomes

    • Chat interface-supported development is providing good starting points and open-webui being open source is more flexible than Gemini. Although currently some fancy features such as grounding and generated podcasts are missing.
    • Allison still has to be very experienced with openQA to use a chat interface for test review. Publicly available system prompts would make that easier, though.

    SUSE AI Meets the Game Board by moio

    Use tabletopgames.ai’s open source TAG and PyTAG frameworks to apply Statistical Forward Planning and Deep Reinforcement Learning to two board games of our own design. On an all-green, all-open source, all-AWS stack!
    A chameleon playing chess in a train car, as a metaphor of SUSE AI applied to games

    Results: Infrastructure Achievements

    We successfully built and automated a containerized stack to support our AI experiments. This included:

    A screenshot of k9s and nvtop showing PyTAG running in Kubernetes with GPU acceleration

    ./deploy.sh and voilà - Kubernetes running PyTAG (k9s, above) with GPU acceleration (nvtop, below)

    Results: Game Design Insights

    Our project focused on modeling and analyzing two card games of our own design within the TAG framework:

    • Game Modeling: We implemented models for Dario's "Bamboo" and Silvio's "Totoro" and "R3" games, enabling AI agents to play thousands of games ...in minutes!
    • AI-driven optimization: By analyzing statistical data on moves, strategies, and outcomes, we iteratively tweaked the game mechanics and rules to achieve better balance and player engagement.
    • Advanced analytics: Leveraging AI agents with Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) and random action selection, we compared performance metrics to identify optimal strategies and uncover opportunities for game refinement .

    Cards from the three games

    A family picture of our card games in progress. From the top: Bamboo, Totoro, R3

    Results: Learning, Collaboration, and Innovation

    Beyond technical accomplishments, the project showcased innovative approaches to coding, learning, and teamwork:

    • "Trio programming" with AI assistance: Our "trio programming" approach—two developers and GitHub Copilot—was a standout success, especially in handling slightly-repetitive but not-quite-exactly-copypaste tasks. Java as a language tends to be verbose and we found it to be fitting particularly well.
    • AI tools for reporting and documentation: We extensively used AI chatbots to streamline writing and reporting. (Including writing this report! ...but this note was added manually during edit!)
    • GPU compute expertise: Overcoming challenges with CUDA drivers and cloud infrastructure deepened our understanding of GPU-accelerated workloads in the open-source ecosystem.
    • Game design as a learning platform: By blending AI techniques with creative game design, we learned not only about AI strategies but also about making games fun, engaging, and balanced.

    Last but not least we had a lot of fun! ...and this was definitely not a chatbot generated line!

    The Context: AI + Board Games

    Symbol Relations by hli

    Description

    There are tools to build function call graphs based on parsing source code, for example, cscope.

    This project aims to achieve a similar goal by directly parsing the disasembly (i.e. objdump) of a compiled binary. The assembly code is what the CPU sees, therefore more "direct". This may be useful in certain scenarios, such as gdb/crash debugging.

    Detailed description and Demos can be found in the README file:

    Supports x86 for now (because my customers only use x86 machines), but support for other architectures can be added easily.

    Tested with python3.6

    Goals

    Any comments are welcome.

    Resources

    https://github.com/lhb-cafe/SymbolRelations

    symrellib.py: mplements the symbol relation graph and the disassembly parser

    symrel_tracer*.py: implements tracing (-t option)

    symrel.py: "cli parser"

    Team Hedgehogs' Data Observability Dashboard by gsamardzhiev

    Description

    This project aims to develop a comprehensive Data Observability Dashboard that provides r insights into key aspects of data quality and reliability. The dashboard will track:

    Data Freshness: Monitor when data was last updated and flag potential delays.

    Data Volume: Track table row counts to detect unexpected surges or drops in data.

    Data Distribution: Analyze data for null values, outliers, and anomalies to ensure accuracy.

    Data Schema: Track schema changes over time to prevent breaking changes.

    The dashboard's aim is to support historical tracking to support proactive data management and enhance data trust across the data function.

    Goals

    Although the final goal is to create a power bi dashboard that we are able to monitor, our goals is to 1. Create the necessary tables that track the relevant metadata about our current data 2. Automate the process so it runs in a timely manner

    Resources

    AWS Redshift; AWS Glue, Airflow, Python, SQL

    Why Hedgehogs?

    Because we like them.

    Run local LLMs with Ollama and explore possible integrations with Uyuni by PSuarezHernandez

    Description

    Using Ollama you can easily run different LLM models in your local computer. This project is about exploring Ollama, testing different LLMs and try to fine tune them. Also, explore potential ways of integration with Uyuni.

    Goals

    • Explore Ollama
    • Test different models
    • Fine tuning
    • Explore possible integration in Uyuni

    Resources

    • https://ollama.com/
    • https://huggingface.co/
    • https://apeatling.com/articles/part-2-building-your-training-data-for-fine-tuning/

    SUSE AI Meets the Game Board by moio

    Use tabletopgames.ai’s open source TAG and PyTAG frameworks to apply Statistical Forward Planning and Deep Reinforcement Learning to two board games of our own design. On an all-green, all-open source, all-AWS stack!
    A chameleon playing chess in a train car, as a metaphor of SUSE AI applied to games

    Results: Infrastructure Achievements

    We successfully built and automated a containerized stack to support our AI experiments. This included:

    A screenshot of k9s and nvtop showing PyTAG running in Kubernetes with GPU acceleration

    ./deploy.sh and voilà - Kubernetes running PyTAG (k9s, above) with GPU acceleration (nvtop, below)

    Results: Game Design Insights

    Our project focused on modeling and analyzing two card games of our own design within the TAG framework:

    • Game Modeling: We implemented models for Dario's "Bamboo" and Silvio's "Totoro" and "R3" games, enabling AI agents to play thousands of games ...in minutes!
    • AI-driven optimization: By analyzing statistical data on moves, strategies, and outcomes, we iteratively tweaked the game mechanics and rules to achieve better balance and player engagement.
    • Advanced analytics: Leveraging AI agents with Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) and random action selection, we compared performance metrics to identify optimal strategies and uncover opportunities for game refinement .

    Cards from the three games

    A family picture of our card games in progress. From the top: Bamboo, Totoro, R3

    Results: Learning, Collaboration, and Innovation

    Beyond technical accomplishments, the project showcased innovative approaches to coding, learning, and teamwork:

    • "Trio programming" with AI assistance: Our "trio programming" approach—two developers and GitHub Copilot—was a standout success, especially in handling slightly-repetitive but not-quite-exactly-copypaste tasks. Java as a language tends to be verbose and we found it to be fitting particularly well.
    • AI tools for reporting and documentation: We extensively used AI chatbots to streamline writing and reporting. (Including writing this report! ...but this note was added manually during edit!)
    • GPU compute expertise: Overcoming challenges with CUDA drivers and cloud infrastructure deepened our understanding of GPU-accelerated workloads in the open-source ecosystem.
    • Game design as a learning platform: By blending AI techniques with creative game design, we learned not only about AI strategies but also about making games fun, engaging, and balanced.

    Last but not least we had a lot of fun! ...and this was definitely not a chatbot generated line!

    The Context: AI + Board Games

    Rancher/k8s Trouble-Maker by tonyhansen

    Project Description

    When studying for my RHCSA, I found trouble-maker, which is a program that breaks a Linux OS and requires you to fix it. I want to create something similar for Rancher/k8s that can allow for troubleshooting an unknown environment.

    Goal for this Hackweek

    Create a basic framework for creating Rancher/k8s cluster lab environments as needed for the Break/Fix Create at least 5 modules that can be applied to the cluster and require troubleshooting

    Resources

    https://github.com/rancher/terraform-provider-rancher2 https://github.com/rancher/tf-rancher-up

    Contribute to terraform-provider-libvirt by pinvernizzi

    Description

    The SUSE Manager (SUMA) teams' main tool for infrastructure automation, Sumaform, largely relies on terraform-provider-libvirt. That provider is also widely used by other teams, both inside and outside SUSE.

    It would be good to help the maintainers of this project and give back to the community around it, after all the amazing work that has been already done.

    If you're interested in any of infrastructure automation, Terraform, virtualization, tooling development, Go (...) it is also a good chance to learn a bit about them all by putting your hands on an interesting, real-use-case and complex project.

    Goals

    • Get more familiar with Terraform provider development and libvirt bindings in Go
    • Solve some issues and/or implement some features
    • Get in touch with the community around the project

    Resources

    terraform-provider-feilong by e_bischoff

    Project Description

    People need to test operating systems and applications on s390 platform.

    Installation from scratch solutions include:

    • just deploy and provision manually add-emoji (with the help of ftpboot script, if you are at SUSE)
    • use s3270 terminal emulation (used by openQA people?)
    • use LXC from IBM to start CP commands and analyze the results
    • use zPXE to do some PXE-alike booting (used by the orthos team?)
    • use tessia to install from scratch using autoyast
    • use libvirt for s390 to do some nested virtualization on some already deployed z/VM system
    • directly install a Linux kernel on a LPAR and use kvm + libvirt from there

    Deployment from image solutions include:

    • use ICIC web interface (openstack in disguise, contributed by IBM)
    • use ICIC from the openstack terraform provider (used by Rancher QA)
    • use zvm_ansible to control SMAPI
    • connect directly to SMAPI low-level socket interface

    IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center (ICIC) harnesses the Feilong API, but you can use Feilong without installing ICIC, provided you set up a "z/VM cloud connector" into one of your VMs following this schema.

    What about writing a terraform Feilong provider, just like we have the terraform libvirt provider? That would allow to transparently call Feilong from your main.tf files to deploy and destroy resources on your system/z.

    Other Feilong-based solutions include:

    • make libvirt Feilong-aware
    • simply call Feilong from shell scripts with curl
    • use zvmconnector client python library from Feilong
    • use zthin part of Feilong to directly command SMAPI.

    Goal for Hackweek 23

    My final goal is to be able to easily deploy and provision VMs automatically on a z/VM system, in a way that people might enjoy even outside of SUSE.

    My technical preference is to write a terraform provider plugin, as it is the approach that involves the least software components for our deployments, while remaining clean, and compatible with our existing development infrastructure.

    Goals for Hackweek 24

    Feilong provider works and is used internally by SUSE Manager team. Let's push it forward!

    Let's add support for fiberchannel disks and multipath.

    Goals for Hackweek 25

    • Finish support for fiberchannel disks and multipath
    • Fix problems with registration on hashicorp providers registry

    Explore the integration between OBS and GitHub by pdostal

    Project Description

    The goals:

    1) When GitHub pull request is created or modified the OBS project will be forked and the build results reported back to GitHub. 2) When new version of the GitHub project will be published the OBS will redownload the source and rebuild the project.

    Goal for this Hackweek

    Do as much as possible, blog about it and maybe use it another existing project.

    Resources

    obs-service-vendor_node_modules by cdimonaco

    Description

    When building a javascript package for obs, one option is to use https://github.com/openSUSE/obs-service-node_modules as source service to get the project npm dependencies available for package bulding.

    obs-service-vendornodemodules aims to be a source service that vendors npm dependencies, installing them with npm install (optionally only production ones) and then creating a tar package of the installed dependencies.

    The tar will be used as source in the package building definitions.

    Goals

    • Create an obs service package that vendors the npm dependencies as tar archive.
    • Maybe add some macros to unpack the vendor package in the specfiles

    Resources

    Switch software-o-o to parse repomd data by hennevogel

    Currently software.opensuse.org search is using the OBS binary search for everything, even for packages inside the openSUSE distributions. Let's switch this to use repomd data from download.opensuse.org

    Bootstrap openSUSE on LoongArch by glaubitz

    Description

    LoongArch is a new architecture from China which has its roots in the MIPS architecture. It has been created by Loongson and is already supported by Debian Ports, Gentoo and Loongnix.

    Upstream support for LoongArch is already quite complete which includes LLVM, Rust, Golang, GRUB, QEMU, LibreOffice and many more. In Debian Ports, where the port is called "loong64", more than 95% of the whole Debian archive have been successfully built for LoongArch.

    QEMU support is rather complete and stable such that packages can be built in emulated environments. Hardware can also be requested by Loongson on request for free. Access to real hardware is also provided through the GCC Compile Farm.

    Goals

    The initial goal should be to add LoongArch to OBS and build a minimal set of packages.

    Resources

    Results

    Acknowledgements

    • Thanks to Adrian Schröter and Rüdiger Oertl for the help with setting up the FTP space and OBS project
    • Thanks to Dirk Müller for the input on how to get started with a new port
    • Thanks to Richard Biener for quickly accepting my submit requests to add loongarch64 support to the toolchain

    New features in openqa-trigger-from-obs for openQA by jlausuch

    Description

    Implement new features in openqa-trigger-from-obs to make xml more flexible.

    Goals

    One of the features to be implemented: - Possibility to define "VERSION" and "ARCH" variables per flavor instead of global.

    Resources

    https://github.com/os-autoinst/openqa-trigger-from-obs

    ddflare: (Dynamic)DNS management via Cloudflare API in Kubernetes by fgiudici

    Description

    ddflare is a project started a couple of weeks ago to provide DDNS management using v4 Cloudflare APIs: Cloudflare offers management via APIs and access tokens, so it is possible to register a domain and implement a DynDNS client without any other external service but their API.

    Since ddflare allows to set any IP to any domain name, one could manage multiple A and ALIAS domain records. Wouldn't be cool to allow full DNS control from the project and integrate it with your Kubernetes cluster?

    Goals

    Main goals are:

    1. add containerized image for ddflare
    2. extend ddflare to be able to add and remove DNS records (and not just update existing ones)
    3. add documentation, covering also a sample pod deployment for Kubernetes
    4. write a ddflare Kubernetes operator to enable domain management via Kubernetes resources (using kubebuilder)

    Available tasks and improvements tracked on ddflare github.

    Resources

    • https://github.com/fgiudici/ddflare
    • https://developers.cloudflare.com/api/
    • https://book.kubebuilder.io

    Uyuni developer-centric documentation by deneb_alpha

    Description

    While we currently have extensive documentation on user-oriented tasks such as adding minions, patching, fine-tuning, etc, there is a notable gap when it comes to centralizing and documenting core functionalities for developers.

    The number of functionalities and side tools we have in Uyuni can be overwhelming. It would be nice to have a centralized place with descriptive list of main/core functionalities.

    Goals

    Create, aggregate and review on the Uyuni wiki a set of resources, focused on developers, that include also some known common problems/troubleshooting.

    The documentation will be helpful not only for everyone who is trying to learn the functionalities with all their inner processes like newcomer developers or community enthusiasts, but also for anyone who need a refresh.

    Resources

    The resources are currently aggregated here: https://github.com/uyuni-project/uyuni/wiki

    Saline (state deployment control and monitoring tool for SUSE Manager/Uyuni) by vizhestkov

    Project Description

    Saline is an addition for salt used in SUSE Manager/Uyuni aimed to provide better control and visibility for states deploymend in the large scale environments.

    In current state the published version can be used only as a Prometheus exporter and missing some of the key features implemented in PoC (not published). Now it can provide metrics related to salt events and state apply process on the minions. But there is no control on this process implemented yet.

    Continue with implementation of the missing features and improve the existing implementation:

    • authentication (need to decide how it should be/or not related to salt auth)

    • web service providing the control of states deployment

    Goal for this Hackweek

    • Implement missing key features

    • Implement the tool for state deployment control with CLI

    Resources

    https://github.com/openSUSE/saline