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 

Clean empty job groups in openQA

 Posted on November 17, 2021  |  4 minutes  |  702 words  |  phoenix

In this blog post I present you a small script, which can help you to remove empty job groups from your own openQA instance. This is helpful if you have a development instance with a lot of job groups, that you never use. [Read More]
openQA  tools  api  python  cli 

Playing with the openqa API

 Posted on September 24, 2021  |  8 minutes  |  1692 words  |  phoenix

Today we are going to play a bit around with the amazing API that every openQA instance provides. The aim of this tutorial is to show how the API can be accessed using a simple language like python. [Read More]
openqa  api  scripting  python 

openqa-cli Cheatsheet

 Posted on August 20, 2021  |  1 minutes  |  59 words  |  phoenix

Checkout the new openqa-cli cheat sheet page where I start to collect some useful “how do I do …” snippets for the openQA CLI utility openqa-cli. [Read More]
CLI 

Use local go modules

 Posted on August 13, 2021  |  1 minutes  |  192 words  |  phoenix

When dealing with go modules, sometimes it’s handy to test some changes from a local repository instead of using the upstream one. Now, go programs are typically relying only on the upstream packages. [Read More]
go 

pasta - stupid simple pastebin service

 Posted on July 16, 2021  |  4 minutes  |  821 words  |  phoenix

pasta is a stupid simple pastebin service for self-hosting. I started this project months ago because I was missing an easy, simple and no pain self-hosting solution. [Read More]
tools  pasta 

Hidden gem - Show failures only in external results

 Posted on May 12, 2021  |  2 minutes  |  303 words  |  phoenix

I just recently discovered one of the hidden gems in the openQA WebUI: Show only failing tests in external results. Problem / User story Certain tests like ltp perform a series of tests within a test run and show the results as “External results”. [Read More]
openQA  WebUI 

Hide IDE folders in git using a global gitignore

 Posted on April 23, 2021  |  2 minutes  |  249 words  |  phoenix

Integrated development environemnts (IDE) are using their own folders within your code repositories to store their settings. This can become annoying when working on a git repository and they keep popping up as untracked files: [Read More]
git  Codium 

IPMI remote access on old machines

 Posted on April 7, 2021  |  2 minutes  |  361 words  |  phoenix

This is a very short update post about getting the IPMI Remote Control Java Applet from horrible old system running on modern systems. This is an issue that haunted me for some time. [Read More]
Bare Metal  IPMI