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Pepperidge farm remembers.

What age do service accounts get? I have "user accounts" that exist purely to run services and are not intended for login. Several of these are owned by the team and not an individual. Who provides the age verification for those?

This makes sense now. Israel initiates hostilities with Iran to draw the US in and reduce the retaliatory power available to hezbollah that was Iran. Now they have an open door for some land grabbing.

I even got a victory lap email from my dem rep. Who signed onto one of the other bills that would have given trump a path forward.

Goddamn warhawks.

Goddammit. My rep is on this list.

It has been 7 or 8 years since I touched it, but yes. I extended some intern-built VMware automation to ovirt so we could validate KVM images and reduce VMware costs for internal dev and because that was the platform the manager decided on. We initially only dedicated 6U or 8U to it.

In general, I'd say it worked just fine and the python sdk was approachable. It wouldn't be my first choice knowing it's Oracle Virtualization now, but that's a moral stance instead of technical.

As for maintaining it long term, I can't really say. I left that team to go play in the clouds with terraform and kubernetes. But I also haven't heard anything negative from that team since (and I'm still friends with one of the system engineers who is responsible for it). And there was a much needed fundamental rewrite of the bits I original extended that continued with ovirt that went smoothly.

It sounds like you want to create a vm template image.

Some options:

Both virsh and virt-manager have tools for managing libvirt xml files that you can turn into a template to use for launching additional images.

Proxmox and ovirt both have template concepts and APIs you can interact with for automation.

If you're looking to create a golden image or just automate configuration, virt-clone, ansible, puppet, packer, and even pxe boot are good options depending on the methods you prefer.

There are so many well-established ways to approach this problem domain. Just don't get decision paralysis. There isn't a best either.

See everyone, the tech oligarchs totally will save us!

... /s

Ah John Daly.

In case you need pictures with his dumb flag pants instead of the meme template for future use.

Bold of you to assume people/companies test backups more than once.

Case in point: I once got instructed to "enable EBS snapshots" for customer deployments to meet a new backup requirement. Disaster recovery was a completely different feature we only kind of got to a couple years later and afaik, remains manual to this day.

Doing anything with rpm-ostree is considered a last resort.

Ideally there's a flatpak you can grab, (there is). If not, then you're supposed to run it in a distrobox and export the app.