Uyuni Community Hours focused on testing ARM support and adding new client operating systems. Help was requested to test Uyuni packages for openSUSE Leap 15.2 ARM and to expand ARM support. Amazon Linux 2, AlmaLinux 8, and Alibaba Linux 2 were discussed as new clients being added, with packages expected in the next Uyuni release. A wide range of existing clients including SUSE Linux Enterprise, openSUSE Leap, CentOS, RHEL, Oracle, Debian, Ubuntu were also mentioned.

1. JulioGonzálezGil
Release Engineer
SUSE Manager/Uyuni
jgonzalez@suse.com
Uyuni Community Hours
SUSE Hackweek edition!
26.03.2021

2. • Help us testing ARM!
• More Uyuni clients
• Uyuni in containers project
• Salt LSP
Agenda
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3. Help us testing ARM

4. • openSUSE Leap 15.2 ARM client packages available at Master
• Uyuni Serverand Proxy packages available for openSUSE Leap
15.2 ARM at Master
• More to come!
Help us testing ARM
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5. More Uyuni clients
(Pau/Julio Hackweek project)

6. • Originally CentOS 7-based OS
• We added support for x86_64 only (aarch64 available, help us!)
• Salt and Salt Minions, support for formulas, states and commands
• Package management, CVE audit
• Everything else that works for CentOS7 should work as well (minor exception: package providers)
• No traditional
• Acting as Virtualization Host not supported because Amazon Linux 2 cannot be installed on bare meal
• Expect it inMaster next week, and for Uyuni Stable 2021.04
Amazon Linux 2 as Uyuni client
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7. • Originally CentOS 7-based OS
• We added support for x86_64 only (aarch64 available, help us!)
• Salt and Salt Minions, support for formulas, states and commands
• Package management, CVE audit
• Everything else that works for CentOS7 should work as well (minor exception: package providers)
• No traditional
• Acting as Virtualization Host not supported because Amazon Linux 2 cannot be installed on bare meal
• Expect it inMaster next week, and for Uyuni Stable 2021.04
Amazon Linux 2 as Uyuni client
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8. Amazon Linux 2 as Uyuni client
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9. Amazon Linux 2 as Uyuni client
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10. • RHEL8 clone. Unofficially released last week.
• Requires Content Lifecycle Management (as CentOS/Oracle/RHEL8)
• We added support for x86_64 only (aarch64 available, help us!)
• Salt and Salt Minions, support for formulas, states and commands
• Package management, CVE audit
• Everything else that works for CentOS8 should work as well (minor exception: package providers)
• No traditionalstack
• Expect it in Master next week, and for Uyuni Stable 2021.04
Alma Linux 8 as Uyuni client
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11. AlmaLinux 8 as Uyuni client
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12. AlmaLinux 8 as Uyuni client
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13. • RHEL 7.6-based OS
• We added support for x86_64 only (aarch64 available, help us!)
• Salt and Salt Minions, support for formulas, states and commands
• Package management, package providers, errata,CVE audit,monitoring,etc
• Everything else that works for CentOS 7 should work as well
• Traditional stack too
• Acting as Virtualization Host not supported because Alibaba Cloud Linux cannot be installed on bare meal
• Expect it in Uyuni Master next week, and for Uyuni Stable 2021.04
Alibaba Linux 2 as Uyuni client
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14. Alibaba Linux 2 as Uyuni client
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16. More and more clients...

17. More and more clients...
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• SUSE LinuxEnterprise12 and15 (all supportedSPs)
• openSUSE Leap15.2 and15.3
• CentOS/RHEL/Oracle6*, 7 and8
• Debian9 and10
• Ubuntu 16.04,18.04 and20.04
• AlmaLinux8
• AmazonLinux2
• AstraLinuxcomingsoon! * EoL at Uyuni next summer

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