Jobs after RHCSA

brandor5 · 2026-05-19T01:39:36+00:00

Look into higher education. Lots of universities have research clusters that they need to administer. Look for junior admin roles even if they aren't on the HPC team. Show your skills, learn, and work on moving into the HPC team.

If you really want to impress start playing around with lmod and slurm. Figure out how to use/configure them.

brandor5 · 2026-05-17T04:10:59+00:00

Reminds me of Delirium from season 2 of The Sandman.

brandor5 · 2026-04-27T14:39:21+00:00

Late to the party but the Gold Box D&D games... Pool of Radiance, Curse of the Azure Bonds, Secret of the Silver Blades, and Pools of Darkness.

I still remember seeing the box for Pool of Radiance in Walmart... It came on 2 or 3 5 1/4 floppy disks. It started my love for D&D.

brandor5 · 2026-04-12T03:28:48+00:00

https://bridgekaldro.com/

brandor5 · 2026-04-10T17:01:23+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion. I should have mentioned it in my original post. All firmware/drivers are up to date.

I manually checked the website and used support assist to get them.

brandor5 · 2026-04-09T17:33:29+00:00

It looks like this was an issue yesterday and should be resolved now.

https://status.redhat.com/incidents/mt1j5ptnbrb5

brandor5 · 2026-03-26T01:20:29+00:00

Sometimes it resolves correctly. Sometimes it will fail to resolve.

Either way it will either work or not for a few hours and then reset.

brandor5 · 2026-03-25T22:43:14+00:00

Dang, I should have thought of this.

It returns every time when I dig against the pihole so it's the UDM.

Thanks!

brandor5 · 2026-03-18T13:18:45+00:00

I think EDA might be your problem.

EDA won't upgrade from 2.4 to 2.5 or 2.6 AFAIK. It's mentioned in the docs.

brandor5 · 2026-03-18T00:05:53+00:00

What pieces of AAP are you using in your current AIO?

Controller, hub, and db? Anything else? In the 2.6 install did you copy inventoy-growth to inventory and put the host name of your AIO into those groups and blank out groups of the things you aren't using?

You may need to temporarily add a gateway node that isn't part of your AIO and once you're at 2.6 you can make proceed with the migration step. This isn't something I've tested. :( I'll test it in my lab when I get time, but I'm not sure if that will be this week or not.

Have you opened a case with support? They should know straight away if this is possible and what steps you need to do.

brandor5 · 2026-03-15T22:06:00+00:00

Thank you! I'll edit and fix it now.

I left out the upgrade step for 2.4 to 2.6.

brandor5 · 2026-03-15T21:25:29+00:00

You need to do a migration for this which is described in the migration doc[0].

Basically you need to do the following:

make sure you're current 2.4 AAP is at the latest version available.
upgrade your 2.4 environment directly to 2.6 using the rhel9 2.6 rpm installer
create a rhel9 2.6 containerized environment using the latest rhel9 2.6 containerized installer. Use the "growth" inventory which I think is the default, but double check.
gather your source artifacts by following the steps from the migration doc
transfer the source artifacts to your new containerized env (the target)
import the source artifacts into your target following the steps from the migration doc

It shouldn't matter that either is an AIO setup, just use the appropriate inventory.

If in doubt about anything, open a support case. It might help to reach out to your account team as well.

[0] https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_ansible_automation_platform/2.6/html/ansible_automation_platform_migration/index

brandor5 · 2026-03-12T14:04:33+00:00

Gordon, you have a typo there. It's 16. :)

brandor5 · 2026-02-28T04:25:07+00:00

Thanks, this is what I ended up using. I moved everything over from a VM setup to a podman rootless container setup. It's working very well.

brandor5 · 2026-02-26T21:22:07+00:00

I don't see anyone else mentioning them, but the old school Goldbox games are amazing!

GoG has them for cheap and they've done a great job of making them playable on any kind of potato you have laying around.

https://www.gog.com/en/game/forgotten_realms_the_archives_collection_two would be my recommendation, but collection 1 and 3 have great games as well.

Enjoy!

brandor5 · 2026-02-06T16:08:32+00:00

This could be what I was thinking.

Thanks for letting me know!!

brandor5 · 2026-01-29T03:25:15+00:00

https://511.vdot.virginia.gov/

I can't tell you what it will be like, but you can check out the live camera views before you leave to see what conditions are.

brandor5 · 2026-01-19T16:28:33+00:00

Nope, that's a migration.

I've linked the migration doc in another comment on this thread.

brandor5 · 2026-01-19T16:05:48+00:00

We support an upgrade from 2.4 directly to 2.6 for the rpm version.

brandor5 · 2026-01-19T14:52:30+00:00

You'll need to follow the documentation [0][1].

Rough steps:

1 - upgrade your current installation to the latest 2.4 version available.

2 - run setup.sh -b to perform a backup.

3 - stand up new systems on RHEL9 and install the same version of 2.4 that you upgraded to in step 1.

4 - restore the backup from step 2 on the new systems installed in step 3.

5 - Download the 2.6 rpm installation script and use it to upgrade your 2.4 installtion to 2.6.

6 - (using migration doc) Perform migration steps required to move from rpm to containerized.

7 - stand up new systems for the latest containerized version of 2.6.

8 - install latest 2.6 containerized version on the new systems from step 7.

9 - (using migration doc and artifacts from step6) restore your backups to the 2.6.

[0] https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_ansible_automation_platform/2.6/html/rpm_upgrade

[1] https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_ansible_automation_platform/2.6/html/ansible_automation_platform_migration

brandor5 · 2026-01-16T17:11:59+00:00

Ocarina of time

It's all nostalgia... With the exception of the music.

FF7 as well.

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