--> I finished my Hack Week 25 project last night, with just two days delay ;) SUSE Virtualization (Harvester): VM Import UI flow . But what exactly was it about and why did ... [read more]
--> I recently released params2env , a CLI tool written in Go that manages AWS SSM Parameter Store parameters and converts them to environment variables. The project is available under the MIT ... [read more]
--> I had some time last night - the neighbors were having a party and I couldn't sleep - so I decided to tackle a task that's been sitting in my backlog for ... [read more]
--> When sharing blog articles on LinkedIn, I noticed they showed The Wombelix Post instead of the actual article titles. After taking a closer look, it seems like social media platforms ... [read more]
--> When you're working with open source drivers, you expect to find the code public available, for example in a git repository, where you can track changes and development. A couple ... [read more]
--> I was curious if it's possible to build a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system for an AI chatbot in a pure serverless way without monthly fixed costs. The main goal was ... [read more]
--> Today I released new versions of terraform-provider-sourcehut (v0.2.1) and the related Go library sourcehut-go (v0.1.1). This is a bugfix release to address an issue when updating ... [read more]
--> Today I migrated dozens of DNS records from manual to OpenTofu based management. My DNS provider allows downloading zone files in BIND format, but other information like record IDs needed ... [read more]
--> I'm impacted by the recent AWS layoffs. Monday, July 28th, 2025 will be my last day after almost 3 years as a Senior Partner Solutions Architect. During my time at ... [read more]
--> As part of my work at AWS, I've been diving deep into running AI/ML workloads with the AWS Neuron SDK on Inferentia and Trainium instances on Red Hat OpenShift ... [read more]
--> After almost 3 years of investing countless hours of my free time in the attempt to keep Pagure alive, I give up. I can't motivate myself anymore to continue and ... [read more]
--> Just because source code is publicly available doesn't automatically make it open source . Without a proper license, that code exists in a legal grey area that can cause significant problems ... [read more]
--> Passed the GitHub Foundations certification exam today. I've been using Git and GitHub for years, but figured it was time to make it official and validate my understanding of the ... [read more]
--> I was invited to the Beta Exam and passed the SCDS in SUSE Edge today. The Solution is basically a compilation of different Products. Most notable is the Edge Image ... [read more]
--> I was invited to the Beta Exam and passed the SCDS in SUSE Multi-Linux Manager today. SUSE decided to create a new Certification for SUSE Multi-Linux Manager 5, formerly SUSE ... [read more]
--> Yesterday I've completed the migration to git-repo-mgmt . It's an OpenTofu based management of my git repositories at Sourcehut with mirrors at Codeberg, Gitlab and GitHub. I was tired to manually ... [read more]
--> As mentioned in my last Fedora / EPEL packaging post , updats for aws-c-io and aws-c-http are coming. They now arrived in Rawhide and all Stable Fedora branches as well as EPEL8 ... [read more]
--> Today I released terraform-provider-sourcehut and the related Go library sourcehut-go into the wild. The majority of code is licensed under BSD-2-Clause . The provider is available in the OpenTofu and Terraform ... [read more]
--> Its been a while since OpenTofu 1.7.0 (Archive: [1] , [2] ) introduced an exciting new feature, the State and Plan Encryption (Archive: [1] , [2] ) for files at rest, for ... [read more]
--> I have the pleasure and great opportunity to represent Amazon Web Services (AWS) with two Sessions at SUSECON 25 in Florida (Archive: [1] , [2] ) together with my SUSE co-speaker Kevin ... [read more]
--> This year I started as guest writer for the SUSE Blog. Today my latest Article was published: Protect AWS CodePipeline CI/CD workflows with SUSE Security (NeuVector) (Archive: [1] , [2 ... [read more]
--> Among the Fedora and EPEL packages I maintain are 11 AWS C lib packages. I wrote some time ago about there function and challenge to package them . Today 9 of ... [read more]
--> The problem with a failing test was driving me nuts yesterday . And I made a classic Engineer mistake, I didn't take a step back to clear my head and recharge ... [read more]
--> Today was the focus on writing the pagure ci plugin and fine-tune my design and architecture assumptions on the way. Basically transferring the outcome of day 3 into some code ... [read more]
--> I continued where I left off on the second day , I was thinking about my architecture last night. AWS CodePipeline requires a bit of a custom implementation within the AWS ... [read more]
--> Second day, time to continue the work on my project after a successful first day . The focus was on research, tests and design decisions for the AWS CodePipeline pagure ci ... [read more]
--> I started the work on my project AWS CodePipeline CI plugin for pagure on code.opensuse.org with my nemesis, the mysterious Unable to find object Exception that I couldn't ... [read more]
--> Let's talk about how to use a ordinary S3 Bucket as serverless Git repository with the remote helper script git-remote-s3 . Release v0.2.0 , contains a feature that let you ... [read more]
--> I recently wrote a AWS CloudTrail Data Service output plugin (Mirror: [1] , [2] , [3] ) in Golang for Fluent Bit . It's Open Source under the Apache-2.0 license. The plugin ingest ... [read more]
--> I passed the new SUSE Certified Administrator (SCA) in Longhorn 1.5 Exam today! Finally back at 100% SUSE Certified after almost a month since it was released ;) Now I'm ... [read more]
--> It was time to re-new and keep my RHCSA , and RHCE current. I was curious about the recently released RHCS in ROSA Exam. I passed the EX229 today and earned ... [read more]
--> I took and passed the brand new Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certified AI Practitioner (Archive: [1] , [2] ) exam this morning! Pretty cool to be one of the first people certified ... [read more]
--> It all started with an orphaned Fedora package called aws-php-sdk3 . I was interested to adopt and update it. I learned quickly that I have to take a look in the ... [read more]
--> I had the great opportunity to speak at openSUSE Conference 24 in Nuremberg about Pagure CI integration with AWS CodePipeline and NeuVector Integration into AWS CodePipeline CI/CD workflow , the ... [read more]
--> And I'm back at 100% SUSE Certified :D I took the Exam on the first day of SUSECON 24 in Berlin. Glad that I passed, couple of tricky questions, but ... [read more]
--> I recently decided to finally become an active package maintainer. Quickly I had to realize that there are different ways to become a Fedora Packager. All have in common that ... [read more]
--> A while ago I was asked if I want to package ec2-instance-connect for Fedora and eventually EPEL. More specific "with Packit" , which did send me down a weird path as ... [read more]
--> SUSE invited me as Beta tester for the new SUSE Certified Deployment Specialist in SLES High-Availability 15 Exam. It was my pleasure to provide feedback and help to improve the ... [read more]
--> I recently started to set up some resources on AWS for my side projects. For starters an AWS KMS key so I can encrypt data on S3 and in the ... [read more]
--> Packit, oh my god, that's a tool and service that gave me a pretty hard time to understand how it works. Not necessarily because it's a complicated tool. But it ... [read more]
--> Recently I started to become an active Fedora packager, which is something I really enjoy. It happens, for various reasons, that a package gets orphaned by its maintainer. Lack of ... [read more]
--> Yes pagure is alive, yes I'm still contributing, yes there will be a new release soon ;) I didn't have the time to contribute as I wished for, but whenever possible ... [read more]
--> Just one week after the AWS DevOps Engineer Professional I also passed the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional exam. I prefer to take such exams close to each other. There ... [read more]
--> After a few weeks of preparation I've passed the AWS Devops Engineer Professional Exam. I enjoyed most of the studying. There were just a couple of topics that are a ... [read more]
--> It's been a while since I announced and released the first version of jDeepL - Unofficial DeepL App for Linux based on JavaFX . Since then it was mentioned on a couple ... [read more]
--> When I moved from a VPS to classic webhosting I had to shutdown my self-hosted git repos as well. I had Sourcehut on my list for years and decided it's ... [read more]
--> Since July the SUSECON 23 session recordings were available on-demand but required a registration. They now became public available on YouTube ! I talked about Rancher integration with AWS services, possibilities ... [read more]
--> Between 31st July and 21st August 2023, I passed the CKA , CKAD and CKS Exam. It was quite a ride and required some discipline. Everything boils down to a lot ... [read more]
--> I did it, after already passing CKA and CKAD , I completed the trifecta today by passing the CKS: Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist as well. Taking and passing all three within ... [read more]
--> And the next one, after passing the CKA a week ago, I cleared CKAD: Certified Kubernetes Application Developer today, which makes two out of three, next stop CKS! I wrote ... [read more]