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I had the great opportunity to speak at SUSECON 23, live in Munich and at the digital conference, about Rancher integration with AWS services and SUSE ALP prototype on AWS, experimental, but fun!.

My goal is to get all three Kubernetes Certifications from The Linux Foundation (CKA, CKAD, CKS), today I started this journey by passing the first Exam (CKA) and becoming a CKA: Certified Kubernetes Administrator.

I had the great opportunity to speak at openSUSE Conference 23 in Nuremberg about Rancher integration with AWS services: possibilities, challenges, outlook and openSUSE ALP prototype on AWS, experimental, but fun!

Today was finally the day I passed the second Exam 202-450 and became LPIC-2 certified.

I will not go into details about the recent announcement from Red Hat to stop publishing RHEL sources on git.centos.org and the millions of reactions from all sides of the community.

This is the third Article of the Series Integrate Rancher with AWS services, I'm focusing on Logging to CloudWatch from Rancher by using IAM Roles for Service Accounts (IRSA) to authenticate to avoid long-term credentials.

This is the second Article of the Series Integrate Rancher with AWS services, I'm going to demonstrate how to perform backups from Rancher to S3 by using IAM Roles for Service Accounts (IRSA) instead of EC2 Instance IAM Roles or AWS access keys.

This is the first Article of the Series Integrate Rancher with AWS services, I did quite a lot with Rancher on Amazon Web Services recently and want to share some of my experiences about the necessary configuration to interact with AWS services for Backup,

Since a few years, this website was running on a VPS, together with some other side projects and my mailboxes.

Back at 100% after passing SCDS in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 today.

Third day at SUSECON 23 in Munich, third Exam passed: SCDS in Rancher Manager 2.7 for Rancher Prime.

Second day at SUSECON 23 in Munich, second Exam passed: SCDS in Rancher Kubernetes Engine 2.

First day at SUSECON 23 in Munich, first Exam passed: SCA in SUSE NeuVector 5.

Here comes another one, SCDS in SUSE NeuVector 5 cleared today.

If you used Rancher Setup (Archive: [1], [2]) from AWS Marketplace to deploy Ranger Manager, you can perform a update to the latest version via Helm, the initial Rancher Setup tool isn't involved in this process.

Rancher Setup (Archive: [1], [2]) from AWS Marketplace deploys an EKS cluster and installs Rancher (Archive: [1], [2]) on top.

Proud to be SCE in SLES for SAP 15 number 166, after passing the two necessary Exams today.

First of all, what's WKD and what's the benefit using it?

I completed the AWS Associate Trifecta by passing the third Exam and becoming an AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate today.

After being guest at Friday Ketchup with Emiel Brok, I had to think about my last contribution to Uyuni.

Continuing my AWS Journey and on my way to get the Associate Trifecta, I passed the AWS Certified Developer - Associate Exam today, AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate up next.

During the SUSE Sales Summit 2022 in Malta this week, I finally had the chance to meet Emiel in person.

Becoming a AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate is part of my On-boarding at AWS, but I would do it either way ;) I passed the Exam today after around three weeks preparation, with a couple of hours studying per day.

I don't have much time anymore to play games, probably a reason why I love gamification, that's something that raise the chances that I continuously invest time in something.

There was only on Certification left on my SUSE Learning Path, SPSA SUSE Rancher, which I received today, after meeting the Pre-Requirements by holding the SUSE Rancher SCA and SCDS Certification.

Never stop learning!

I learned so much SLES and SUMA related already, it was time to focus on Container, Kubernetes and Rancher.

Wow what a ride!

By passing the Exam and getting recognized as SCDS in SUSE Manager 4 today, my SUSE Training & Certification Month comes to an end.

September was somehow my SUSE Learning month, first I Updated my SCA and SCE to SLE 15, followed by earning SCA SLE HA 12 & 15 and today I also became a SCA+ in SLES for SAP Applications 12!

I have the pleasure to work even more with SUSE Products in future, therefore I wanted to brush up my knowledge about SUSE Linux Enterprise Server High Availability a bit.

SUSE provides some great Training Courses with a lot of Exercises and Online Labs are also available for most of them.

I'm using Hyperskill since a while, nice platform to learn Coding, also with daily challenges which I love to solve.

It's quite a while since I passed the SCA and SCE Exam in SLES12, It was time to get them updated to SLES15, so today was the day to finally take the SLES 12 to 15 Certification Update Exam (Archive: [1], [2]), which I passed with a great Score of 96% :).

I wrote about my first attempt last Year and gave it a another try today, after preparing a lot throughout the last weeks, but not as much as I actually planned to.

Today was my last workday before I leave NTT officially end of September.

Everyone is talking about SUSE NeuVector, I though it's time to learn more about it so I took the Sales and Technical Sales Course and passed the Exam.

Next step on my Cloud Journey completed by passing the AZ-104 Exam, it was a tough one but still fair and a great basis to build further Azure knowledge on top.

I'm using Vorta, a Desktop Client for BorgBackup, on my Notebook with openSUSE Tumbleweed, which stopped working after upgrading Tumbleweed to a Version that started using Python 3.10 as default.

Cloud here I come, didn't planned to take the AWS Practitioner so quickly after the Azure Fundamentals, but I was so curious about things that both might have in common as well as the differences, that I couldn't resist.

I started my Public Cloud / Hyperscaler Journey with Azure, first stop: AZ-900 Exam, passed and Certification received.

Next step in my continuous learning path was to achieve the SPSA SLES, which I did today.

I'm a daily DeepL User, the Windows App is convenient but nothing comparable was available for Linux, so I build my own. jDeepL is a very simple GUI Application based on JavaFX, developed and tested on openSUSE Tumbleweed with KDE Plasma.

In the Session SUSE Manager as a Service: Infrastructure & Patch Management made easy [POV-1236] (Archive: [1]) on Thursday, Jun 9, from 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM CEST, I will talk about my vision to provide Managed Services based on SUSE Manager.

In April I got certified as SUSE Sales Specialist and SUSE Technical Sales Specialist in the categories SLES, SLES for SAP, SUSE Manager and Rancher.

I'm using openSUSE whenever possible but had some trouble to use the official images on Proxmox.

Any available SUSE and openSUSE KVM Image I tried, ended in a VM that stuck on boot with the message "a start job is running for /dev/disk/by-uuid" or dropped into the dracut emergency shell after a timeout.

My experiences are based on a recent Harbor setup on Rocky Linux, but should be easily transferable to any other Application and Linux Distribution.

Again a interesting bug, this time during the In-Place Upgrade of a VMWare vCloud Usage Meter from Version 4.4 to 4.5, which shouldn't be a big deal based on the official Upgrade Guide (Archive: [1], [2]).

From a technical point of view, every Red Hat Enterprise Linux derivate is as good as the original.