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I finished my Hack Week 25 project last night, with just two days delay ;) SUSE Virtualization (Harvester): VM Import UI flow.

I recently released params2env, a CLI tool written in Go that manages AWS SSM Parameter Store parameters and converts them to environment variables.

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 way too long: modernizing jDeepL, my unofficial DeepL translation app for Linux.

When sharing blog articles on LinkedIn, I noticed they showed The Wombelix Post instead of the actual article titles.

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.

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.

Today I released new versions of terraform-provider-sourcehut (v0.2.1) and the related Go library sourcehut-go (v0.1.1).

Today I migrated dozens of DNS records from manual to OpenTofu based management.

I'm impacted by the recent AWS layoffs.

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 Services on AWS (ROSA).

After almost 3 years of investing countless hours of my free time in the attempt to keep Pagure alive, I give up.

Just because source code is publicly available doesn't automatically make it open source.

Passed the GitHub Foundations certification exam today.

I was invited to the Beta Exam and passed the SCDS in SUSE Multi-Linux Manager today.

I was invited to the Beta Exam and passed the SCDS in SUSE Edge today.

Yesterday I've completed the migration to git-repo-mgmt.

As mentioned in my last Fedora / EPEL packaging post, updats for aws-c-io and aws-c-http are coming.

Today I released terraform-provider-sourcehut and the related Go library sourcehut-go into the wild.

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 local storage and remote backends.

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 Ayres and Nicolas Lowman.

This year I started as guest writer for the SUSE Blog.

Among the Fedora and EPEL packages I maintain are 11 AWS C lib packages.

The problem with a failing test was driving me nuts yesterday.

Today was the focus on writing the pagure ci plugin and fine-tune my design and architecture assumptions on the way.

I continued where I left off on the second day, I was thinking about my architecture last night.

Second day, time to continue the work on my project after a successful first day.

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 solve in the past.

Let's talk about how to use a ordinary S3 Bucket as serverless Git repository with the remote helper script git-remote-s3.

I recently wrote a AWS CloudTrail Data Service output plugin (Mirror: [1], [2], [3]) in Golang for Fluent Bit.

I passed the new SUSE Certified Administrator (SCA) in Longhorn 1.5 Exam today!

It was time to re-new and keep my RHCSA, and RHCE current.

I took and passed the brand new Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certified AI Practitioner (Archive: [1], [2]) exam this morning!

It all started with an orphaned Fedora package called aws-php-sdk3.

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 recordings are now online.

And I'm back at 100% SUSE Certified :D I took the Exam on the first day of SUSECON 24 in Berlin.

I recently decided to finally become an active package maintainer.

A while ago I was asked if I want to package ec2-instance-connect for Fedora and eventually EPEL.

SUSE invited me as Beta tester for the new SUSE Certified Deployment Specialist in SLES High-Availability 15 Exam.

I recently started to set up some resources on AWS for my side projects.

Packit, oh my god, that's a tool and service that gave me a pretty hard time to understand how it works.

Recently I started to become an active Fedora packager, which is something I really enjoy.

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 I contributed.

Just one week after the AWS DevOps Engineer Professional I also passed the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional exam.

After a few weeks of preparation I've passed the AWS Devops Engineer Professional Exam.

It's been a while since I announced and released the first version of jDeepL - Unofficial DeepL App for Linux based on JavaFX.

When I moved from a VPS to classic webhosting I had to shutdown my self-hosted git repos as well.

Since July the SUSECON 23 session recordings were available on-demand but required a registration.

Between 31st July and 21st August 2023, I passed the CKA, CKAD and CKS Exam.

I did it, after already passing CKA and CKAD, I completed the trifecta today by passing the CKS: Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist as well.

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!