Robert Schweikert, Author at SUSE Communities

September 26, 2024 11:28 am

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Long Term Service Pack Support for PAYG Instances Simplified

Long Term Service Pack Support (LTSS) is an add-on product for SUSE Linux Enterprise distributions that affords the extension of support for Service Packs (SPs) for up to 3 years. Until now getting an add-on product such as LTSS and applying it to Pay As You Go (PAYG) instances was only possible with some business […]

Categories: Announcements, AWS, Expert Views, Microsoft, Server, SLES on Azure, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for Amazon EC2, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for ARM, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for Azure, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for High Performance Computing, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications, Technical Solutions

By: Robert Schweikert

August 21, 2024 8:18 pm

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Ooops – Not A Smooth Rollout For Registry Support

Well, starting a new feature announcement with an apology and instructions to work around a bug is not the way this was planned. But as the saying goes in German Erstens kommt es anders und zweitens als man denkt. Loosely translated into: Murphy's law strikes again. With this out of the way let's start at […]

Categories: CSP, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for High Performance Computing, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications, SUSE Linux Micro, SUSE Multi-Linux Manager

By: Robert Schweikert

July 10, 2024 3:22 pm

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Image Changes in AWS EC2 for IMDS Access

In 2019 AWS EC2 introduced the Instance Metadata Service v2 (IMDSv2) protocol to enhance security when accessing the metadata for an instance in EC2. Since then a lot of effort has been made to move everything that depends on IMDS to use the v2 protocol. The AMI creation process also has a setting to make […]

Categories: Announcements, AWS, CSP, Expert Views, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for Amazon EC2

By: Robert Schweikert

March 25, 2024 2:13 pm

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Incompatible changes ahead for Public Cloud SDKs

Let me start by stating that the following is limited to the Public Cloud SDK packages, i.e. packages that provide code used to access the APIs for Alibaba, AWS, Azure, and Google cloud, no other Python packages are affected by this change. Also the timing of when you apply these changes is under your […]

Categories: Announcements, AWS, CSP, Expert Views, Microsoft, SLES on Azure, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for ARM, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for High Performance Computing, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications

By: Robert Schweikert

May 3, 2023 3:04 pm

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Hybrid Boot and SEV-SNP support in AWS EC2

A while back AWS introduced UEFI support for specific instance types. Then in March of 2023 AWS enabled hybrid-boot for AMIs and in addition to the memory encryption that has already been supported in EC2, AWS announced the support of attestation, also known as SEV-SNP recently. Throughout this process AWS and SUSE have been working […]

Categories: Announcements, AWS, Cloud Computing, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for Amazon EC2, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for High Performance Computing, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications, SUSE Linux Micro

By: Robert Schweikert

January 30, 2023 9:44 pm

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SLE-Micro in the Public Cloud

The time has arrived to get out of, what is probably one of the longest, "soft launch" periods, and make the availability of SLE-Micro images in the Public Cloud more widely known. I am taking the liberty of defining "soft launch" in this case as publish images don't talk about the images let […]

Categories: Announcements, AWS, Cloud Computing, Corporate, CSP, Microsoft, SUSE Linux Micro

By: Robert Schweikert

September 29, 2022 2:04 pm

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Upgrades for Azure Hybrid Benefit

A while back in cooperation with the Azure team we enabled Azure Hybrid Benefit for SUSE Linux Enterprise images. In the first incarnation it was possible to switch a SUSE Linux Enterprise Server or a SUSE Linux Enterprise Server For SAP Applications instance from PAYG (on-demand) to BYOS (Bring Your Own Subscription). Such a switch […]

Categories: Announcements, Cloud Computing, CSP, Microsoft, SLES on Azure, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for Azure, Technical Solutions

By: Robert Schweikert

January 6, 2022 8:00 pm

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BYOS Instances And The SUSE Public Cloud Update Infrastructure

Way back when in 2015 I wrote about differences between BYOS and on-demand images in "On Demand, BYOS, say what? Why do I need it?" mentioning that on-demand images contain "special sauce" that register an on-demand instance automatically to the SUSE operated update infrastructure in AWS EC2, Azure, and GCE. Much […]

Categories: Announcements, CSP, Expert Views, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for Amazon EC2, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for Azure, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications, Technical Solutions

By: Robert Schweikert

October 1, 2020 5:53 pm

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SUSE Linux Enterprise and Azure Hybrid Benefit

During Microsoft Ignite 2020 the support of Azure Hybrid Benefit for SUSE Pay As You Go was announced. This is the result of a combined effort that includes changes in the Azure IMDS (Instance Metadata Service) and the SUSE region based update infrastructure that supports PAYG instances. Let's get into the details about what […]

Categories: Cloud Computing, Microsoft, SLES on Azure, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for Azure, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications, SUSE News