So, did I forget something? Of course, I forgot something, I’ve talked a lot about RPMs and SPEC files but I haven’t talked about, how to actually build RPMs. Well, let’s close this gap in the blog post. Mass tar...
As promised in the first two parts, I will close this blog series with a more sophisticated and complex example of how to build an RPM. In this part I will showcase the RPM I build to deploy the SAP...
Recently, I was a little bit bored on a grey and rainy November weekend without MotoGP or the like on television. So, I zapped through tons of YouTube videos and, out of a sudden, I stumbled over a video of...
As stated in the last part, it’s now time to build the first RPM. The first RPM only has one purpose, it should create the environment for further RPMs with the same domain. The central file for creating RPMs is...
Especially in the enterprise application area, I often see software delivered as an archive with its self-developed installation program or script. Although it’s not fundamentally wrong, it’s also not ideal. This is primarily true for smaller, encapsulated software packages. The...
Recently I noticed that previous configurations to spin up docker instances with systemd enabled within Molecule-powered tests didn’t work anymore. Unfortunately, I didn’t have the slightest clue why and how to fix this. Usually, a bit of Google search solves...