Robert Schweikert, Author at SUSE Communities

August 8, 2026 7:47 pm

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Public Cloud Toolchains in SUSE Linux Enterprise 16: Transparent Containers

The release of the SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE) 16 distributions has long come and gone and the development cycle for SLE 16.1 is well on the way and will culminate in the SLE 16.1 release later this year. As such, and as part of the "better late than never" story of time, […]

By: Robert Schweikert

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Author: Robert Schweikert

Public Cloud Toolchains in SUSE Linux Enterprise 16: Transparent Containers

Long Term Service Pack Support for PAYG Instances Simplified

Ooops – Not A Smooth Rollout For Registry Support

Image Changes in AWS EC2 for IMDS Access

Incompatible changes ahead for Public Cloud SDKs

Hybrid Boot and SEV-SNP support in AWS EC2

SLE-Micro in the Public Cloud

Upgrades for Azure Hybrid Benefit

BYOS Instances And The SUSE Public Cloud Update Infrastructure

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