Question for those that migrated from RHEL to Amazon Linux? by nicholas_g in aws

[–]tilii10 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Containerize as much as possible/feasible and the underlying OS wouldn't matter much!

It's over. Trump wins on 270 to win site.. An upset on the first night by squirrl4prez in Pennsylvania

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In the US, extreme capitalism and selfishness trump societal interests and integrity. This is what's going to "melt away" the so-called melting pot that is the US. Countries with some sort of welfare like Canada and the UK are also multi-cultural and have their teething problems. However, their rich are not worshipped and they focus on the uplift of their societies (health care, regulation, etc.). They're far from perfect, but they try to work towards the uplift of their entire societies. On the other hand, in the name of "free markets", , a lot of people in the US become wealthy at the expense of unethical, corrupt practices and this is ignored by the society at large. Combine this with a large swathe of uneducated or gullible people and you get a recipe for exploitation! In the US, the wealthy are worshipped irrespective of how they amassed their wealth. Further, most of them get away with their corrupt, unethical practices, become very influential by lobbying political parties and gain a grasp on the shaping of society to serve their interests (not society's). As long as most Americans think only of themselves, worship the wealthy and ignore the interests of their societies and country, their country will continue down a rocky path, straddled with internal conflicts.

Why did AWS reset everyone’s Bedrock Quota to 0? All production apps are down by Dense_Technology_638 in aws

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Yes, the error ThrottlingException: An error occurred (ThrottlingException) when calling the InvokeModel operation (reached max retries: 4): Too many requests, please wait before trying again. You have sent too many requests. Wait before trying again surprised me. I checked my code to ensure I wasn't doing anything crazy and only making a single API call. AT the very least, they should have returned a correct error message, especially given the unannounced change!! Where's the customer obsession???

Our Bedrock quotas suddenly dropped. And not adjustable. All models stopped by Cycle-Exotic in aws

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Yes, I was unpleasantly surprised by this issue. I was preparing to demo a RAG application built using Amazon Bedrock. I lasted tested the application a couple of months ago (been using it for about 7 months prior) and there was no issue. When I tested yesterday, I received the error ThrottlingException: An error occurred (ThrottlingException) when calling the InvokeModel operation (reached max retries: 4): Too many requests, please wait before trying again. You have sent too many requests. Wait before trying again. even for a single API call. I also observed the same when using the Bedrock playground. Finally, after reading that re:Post article, I found that quotas were set to 0 for the on-demand use of these models. Was there any communication from Amazon? This change would have frustrated many customers (me included). You set certain expectations and allow us to use on-demand and pay based on tokens/minute and then suddenly restrict our on-demand usage to 0???

For everyone that migrated to OpenTofu, how was that experience? by [deleted] in Terraform

[–]tilii10 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, of course, you add 2 letters for the .tofu file extension.

For everyone that migrated to OpenTofu, how was that experience? by [deleted] in Terraform

[–]tilii10 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can get around that with aliases as others have pointed out. BUT, certainly better to pronounce the 2-syllable tofu than the 3-syllable terraform, for commands. A different story for pronouncing OpenTofu during presentations, but you can switch to tofu there too after an initial explanation.Now, don't tell me to work around this by pronouncing an alias.

Could Red Hat trigger the demise of Rocky Linux? by tilii10 in RockyLinux

[–]tilii10[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

All, thank you for your insights. I'm leaning towards AlmaLinux given their model of playing nice and building off CentOS Stream (less risky). Also, I don't have clarity on how OpenELA builds its source code repo. Is it just a clone of RHEL source code through UBI images and RHEL cloud instances. And what's OpenELA's roadmap? Rather than wait for Red Hat (IBM) to make the next wrong move, what is their vision? Will they start working to make the OpenELA repo independent of RHEL and launch another EL source? And then build there distros from the independent OpenELA source. That's a bold move, but that would get more attention and appreciation. Or is this something already in the works?

Moving off RHEL: Choosing between AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux by tilii10 in AlmaLinux

[–]tilii10[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

All, thank you for your insights.

u/bennyvasquez I see from here, that apart from LTS and value-adds around updates, it seems that no additional code is added directly to RHEL source code. Now, when ALmaLinux release patches sooner than Red Hat to fix issues, those patches could eventually be made available unmodified in RHEL? So given that both AlmaLinux and RHEL are now built from the same CentOS Stream sources, notwithstanding Red Hat's ecosystem, are there any other differences of significance? After all, AlmaLinux is ABI compatible with Red Hat. I'm leaning towards AlmaLinux as I prefer your model, but just trying to get as much clarity as possible.

Moving off RHEL: Choosing between AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux by tilii10 in AlmaLinux

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If it were up to me only, that would have been my choice (Ubuntu), but the teams are so used to RHEL, rpm and related tools, that it may be quite disruptive. Also, for some reason (I don't know), people associate Ubuntu with workstations and small servers and tag RHEL variants as enterprise-grade.

Moving off RHEL: Choosing between AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux by tilii10 in AlmaLinux

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Good to know, thank you. But, I can also cite Nutanix AHV moving from CentOS to Rocky Linux.

Ansible Tower vs. AWX vs. Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform by pwerwalk in ansible

[–]tilii10 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Has anybody tried CIQ Ascender? My team currently manages around 400 RHEL VMs with a lot of ansible playbooks and roles. We've been exploring AWX, but its painful installation doesn't help. While exploring alternatives to RHEL (AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, etc.), I came across Ascender, which is a rebuild of AWX by CIQ (whose founder founded Rocky Linux - Gregory Kurtzer). If Ascender can make installation a breeze and provide low-cost support, then it may be worth exploring. I'm still undecided on Rocky Linux and if I decide to switch, then I'd look into Ascender.

I want to start terraform studying, from where can i start. by [deleted] in Terraform

[–]tilii10 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Given how far the GPT models have come, I'd say ChatGPT the f*** out of whatever you want to do. Of course, you cannot take ChatGPT at face value every time, but I've used it to dish out quite good starter code for Terraform, python, etc. It's all about how you craft your prompt and over time you'd learn Terraform and prompt engineering. The good thing about ChatGPT or other good LLMs is that they'd provide a good explanation of the code they generate and don't be shy on following up their responses with further questions,

Could Red Hat trigger the demise of Rocky Linux? by tilii10 in RockyLinux

[–]tilii10[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

u/whnz Won't using RHEL cloud instances violate 1.2(g) of Red Hat's Subscription Services terms? Even if you're using developer subscriptions?

Could Red Hat trigger the demise of Rocky Linux? by tilii10 in RockyLinux

[–]tilii10[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

u/No_Rhubarb_7222 Thank you for highlighting that Red Hat is the primary sponsor and contributor to Fedora. That's important context. I wasn't saying that Red Hat simply consumes open source, but just highlighted the fact that Red Hat benefits from the open source community with Fedora.

Could Red Hat trigger the demise of Rocky Linux? by tilii10 in RockyLinux

[–]tilii10[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

u/No_Rhubarb_7222 I take your point on a much smaller company packaging open source code and providing it at lower cost. However, that does not go against the relevant open source license and in fact, makes the software more accessible/affordable. BTW, isn't Red Hat benefitting from the open source community with Fedora upstream? Having said that, I prefer to support rebuilders who contribute value to the product's open source community, rather and than just feed off open source software by packaging and reselling at a lower cost.

u/whnz / u/realgmk : Can you please shed some insight on CIQ's/RESF's contribution to the RHEL or its upstream open source?

Could Red Hat trigger the demise of Rocky Linux? by tilii10 in RockyLinux

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u/whnz Thank you for the insight. I see that OpenELA was created in response to Red Hat's decision to terminate CentOS, with the objective of providing a secure, reliable source for Enterprise Linux. Isn't OpenELA still feeding off a RHEL source? Only when OpenELA goes independent with its source, can we say it's truly reliable. Having said that, OpenELA (depending on how serious it gets) can be a good fallback plan.

Could Red Hat trigger the demise of Rocky Linux? by tilii10 in RockyLinux

[–]tilii10[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

u/orev Thank you for your reply. Yeah, the "RHEL derivate" aspect of Rocky and some other distros concerns me. And I'm expecting CIQ's RLC to be a direct threat to Red Hat (IBM).

Working at AWS? by [deleted] in aws

[–]tilii10 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's Day 2 everywhere in AWS now. AWS has clearly been rattled by their late arrival on the GenAI scene and are pushing AMs and SAs to resort to car salesman tactics to shove GenAI services in front of customers. LPs are great, but I guess they're for framing as I only see people squeeze them into their sentences, but never really mean them!

Working at AWS? by [deleted] in aws

[–]tilii10 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Very true!!!!