Containers

Upgrade a PostgreSQL container to a new major version

Posted on November 23, 2023 | 7 minutes | 1372 words | phoenix

PostgreSQL is a capable and mature database, which comes in a major or minor version number (e.g. 16.0). Minor releases never change the internal storage, so the database always remains compatible with earlier and later minor releases. [Read More]

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molecule test: failed to connect to bus in systemd container

Posted on June 27, 2022 | 2 minutes | 237 words | phoenix

Ansible Molecule is a project to help you test your ansible roles. I’m using molecule for automatically testing the ansible roles of geekoops. So, while hacking on the geekoops roles, molecule test was complaining on my Tumbleweed machine: [Read More]

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BCI test tutorial

Posted on June 16, 2022 | 5 minutes | 995 words | phoenix

Base Container Images (BCI) are a SUSE offer for a variety of container images suitable for building custom applications atop of the SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE). [Read More]

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Container Layer Analyzer

Posted on November 19, 2021 | 1 minutes | 129 words | phoenix

Today I’d like to point out an amazing new tool: The Container Layer Analyzer, written by Dan Čermák. Dan also wrote a comprehensive blog post about it, which explains it much better than what I do here. [Read More]

Containers