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By: Raul Mahiques

August 8, 2023 2:07 pm

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CentOS Alternatives: Migrating Workloads From CentOS To OpenSUSE Leap – Automating With Ansible Part 2

In this blog posts, we’ll dive into adapting your Ansible code made for CentOS to openSUSE Leap, ensuring seamless compatibility. In this first part, we provided advice and a general introduction to ease your way into the process. In this second part, we’ll delve into practical examples of troubleshooting and adapting existing roles. […]

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By: Raul Mahiques

August 4, 2023 2:54 pm

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CentOS Alternatives: Migrating Workloads From CentOS To OpenSUSE Leap – Automating With Ansible Part 1

In this blog posts, we'll dive into adapting your Ansible code made for CentOS to openSUSE Leap, ensuring seamless compatibility. In this first part, we'll provide advice and a general introduction to ease your way into the process. Then, for the second part, where we'll delve into practical examples of troubleshooting and adapting existing roles. […]

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By: Jason Phippen

July 22, 2021 10:48 am

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SUSE Manager and Ansible: Making Automation Easier and More Powerful

Configuration and automation platforms have become increasingly important to control an organization’s ever-growing IT landscape. There are a variety of popular tools in the market and companies may have already made investments in a particular tool, one of them being Ansible. Adopting SUSE Manager, or migrating to it, does not mean that you should […]

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By: Jason Phippen

April 7, 2020 12:48 pm

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SUSE Manager 4: The Smart Choice for Managing Linux and Comparing the Alternatives – Ansible, Chef, Puppet and SaltStack

"Only SUSE Manager combines software content lifecycle management (CLM) with a centrally staged repository and class-leading configuration management and automation, plus optional state of the art monitoring capabilities, for all major Linux distributions." These days, IT departments manage highly dynamic and heterogeneous networks under constantly changing requirements. One important trend that has contributed […]

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By: Jason Phippen

September 25, 2018 10:35 am

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SUSE Manager: Comparing the Alternatives – Ansible, Chef, Puppet and SaltStack

Comparing the Alternatives In my previous blog series we took a dive into SUSE Manager 3.2, looking at what SUSE Manager is, how it works and how it is configured. In this follow on blog we take a look at how SUSE Manager 3.2 compares with Chef, Puppet, Ansible and SaltStack. SUSE Manager […]

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By: David Byte

October 16, 2015 12:40 pm

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A Steady Hand

Today bears news of yet another tech acquisition.  This time, it is another open source player buying a configuration management technology company.  Normally, this would not prompt me to write anything, but this acquisition is exposing a distinct difference that is worth pointing out. For many years, SUSE has been known as an […]

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