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General concern If you want to move VMs to an another Storage Domain, you need to copy the template from it as well! Remove a disk: 1# IF RHV does not use anymore disk those should appear empty in lsblk: 2lsblk -a 3sdf 8:80 0 4T 0 disk 4└─36001405893b456536be4d67a7f6716e3 253:38 0 4T 0 mpath 5sdg 8:96 0 4T 0 disk 6└─36001405893b456536be4d67a7f6716e3 253:38 0 4T 0 mpath 7sdh 8:112 0 4T 0 disk 8└─36001405893b456536be4d67a7f6716e3 253:38 0 4T 0 mpath 9sdi 8:128 0 0 disk 10└─360014052ab23b1cee074fe38059d7c94 253:39 0 100G 0 mpath 11sdj 8:144 0 0 disk 12└─360014052ab23b1cee074fe38059d7c94 253:39 0 100G 0 mpath 13sdk 8:160 0 0 disk 14└─360014052ab23b1cee074fe38059d7c94 253:39 0 100G 0 mpath 15 16# find all disks from LUN ID 17LUN_ID="360014054ce7e566a01d44c1a4758b092" 18list_disk=$(dmsetup deps -o devname ${LUN_ID}| cut -f 2 |cut -c 3- |tr -d "()" | tr " " "\n") 19echo ${list_disk} 20 21# Remove from multipath 22multipath -f "${LUN_ID}" 23 24# remove disk 25for i in ${list_disk}; do echo ${i}; blockdev --flushbufs /dev/${i}; echo 1 > /sys/block/${i}/device/delete; done 26 27# You can which disk link with which LUN on CEPH side 28ls -l /dev/disk/by-* NFS for OLVM/oVirt Since oVirt need a shared stockage, we can create a local NFS to bypass this point if no Storage bay.

Tar - « tape archiver » Preserve files permissions and ownership. The Basic 1# Archive 2tar cvf mon_archive.tar <fichier1> <fichier2> </rep/doosier/> 3 4## Archive and compress with zstd everything in the current dir and push to /target/dir 5tar -I zstd -vcf archive.tar.zstd -C /target/dir . 6 7# Extract 8tar xvf mon_archive.tar 9 10# Extract push to target dir 11tar -zxvf new.tar.gz -C /target/dir Other usefull options • t : list archive’s content. • T : Archive list given by a file. • P : Absolute path is preserve (usefull for backup /etc) • X : exclude • z : compression Gunzip • j : compression Bzip2 • J : compression Lzmacd

Some time ago, I made a small shell script to handle Vault on a cluster kubernetes. For documentation purpose. Install Vault with helm 1#!/bin/bash 2 3## Variables 4DIRNAME=$(dirname $0) 5DEFAULT_VALUE="vault/values-override.yaml" 6NewAdminPasswd="PASSWORD" 7PRIVATE_REGISTRY_USER="registry-admin" 8PRIVATE_REGISTRY_PASSWORD="PASSWORD" 9PRIVATE_REGISTRY_ADDRESS="registry.example.com" 10DOMAIN="example.com" 11INGRESS="vault.${DOMAIN}" 12 13if [ -z ${CM_NS+x} ];then 14 CM_NS='your-namespace' 15fi 16 17if [ -z ${1+x} ]; then 18 VALUES_FILE="${DIRNAME}/${DEFAULT_VALUE}" 19 echo -e "\n[INFO] Using default values file '${DEFAULT_VALUE}'" 20else 21 if [ -f $1 ]; then 22 echo -e "\n[INFO] Using values file $1" 23 VALUES_FILE=$1 24 else 25 echo -e "\n[ERROR] No file exist $1" 26 exit 1 27 fi 28fi 29 30## Functions 31function checkComponentsInstall() { 32 componentsArray=("kubectl" "helm") 33 for i in "${componentsArray[@]}"; do 34 command -v "${i}" >/dev/null 2>&1 || 35 { echo "${i} is required, but it's not installed. Aborting." >&2; exit 1; } 36 done 37} 38 39function createSecret() { 40kubectl get secret -n ${CM_NS} registry-pull-secret --no-headers 2> /dev/null \ 41|| \ 42kubectl create secret docker-registry -n ${CM_NS} registry-pull-secret \ 43 --docker-server=${PRIVATE_REGISTRY_ADDRESS} \ 44 --docker-username=${PRIVATE_REGISTRY_USER} \ 45 --docker-password=${PRIVATE_REGISTRY_ADDRESS} 46} 47 48function installWithHelm() { 49helm dep update ${DIRNAME}/helm 50 51helm upgrade --install vault ${DIRNAME}/helm \ 52--namespace=${CM_NS} --create-namespace \ 53--set global.imagePullSecrets.[0]=registry-pull-secret \ 54--set global.image.repository=${PRIVATE_REGISTRY_ADDRESS}/hashicorp/vault-k8s \ 55--set global.agentImage.repository=${PRIVATE_REGISTRY_ADDRESS}/hashicorp/vault \ 56--set ingress.hosts.[0]=${INGRESS} \ 57--set ingress.enabled=true \ 58--set global.leaderElection.namespace=${CM_NS} 59 60echo -e "\n[INFO] sleep 30s" && sleep 30 61} 62 63checkComponentsInstall 64createSecret 65installWithHelm Init Vault on kubernetes Allow local kubernetes to create and reach secret on the Vault

Package with pip3 1pip3 freeze netaddr > requirements.txt 2pip3 download -r requirements.txt -d wheel 3mv requirements.txt wheel 4tar -zcf wheelhouse.tar.gz wheel 5tar -zxf wheelhouse.tar.gz 6pip3 install -r wheel/requirements.txt --no-index --find-links wheel Package with Poetry 1curl -sSL https://install.python-poetry.org | python3 - 2poetry new rp-poetry 3poetry add ansible 4poetry add poetry 5poetry add netaddr 6poetry add kubernetes 7poetry add jsonpatch 8poetry add `cat ~/.ansible/collections/ansible_collections/kubernetes/core/requirements.txt` 9 10poetry build 11 12pip3 install dist/rp_poetry-0.1.0-py3-none-any.whl 13 14poetry export --without-hashes -f requirements.txt -o requirements.txt Push dans Nexus 1poetry config repositories.test http://localhost 2poetry publish -r test Images Builder 1podman login registry.redhat.io 2podman pull registry.redhat.io/ansible-automation-platform-22/ansible-python-base-rhel8:1.0.0-230 3 4pyenv local 3.9.13 5python -m pip install poetry 6poetry init 7poetry add ansible-builder

Specific to RHEL 1# Create a trust zone for the two interconnect 2sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=trusted --add-source=10.42.0.0/16 #pods 3sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=trusted --add-source=10.43.0.0/16 #services 4sudo firewall-cmd --reload 5sudo firewall-cmd --list-all-zones 6 7# on Master 8sudo rm -f /var/lib/cni/networks/cbr0/lock 9sudo /usr/local/bin/k3s-killall.sh 10sudo systemctl restart k3s 11sudo systemctl status k3s 12 13# on Worker 14sudo rm -f /var/lib/cni/networks/cbr0/lock 15sudo /usr/local/bin/k3s-killall.sh 16sudo systemctl restart k3s-agent 17sudo systemctl status k3s-agent Check Certificates 1# Get CA from K3s master 2openssl s_client -connect localhost:6443 -showcerts < /dev/null 2>&1 | openssl x509 -noout -enddate 3openssl s_client -showcerts -connect 193.168.51.103:6443 < /dev/null 2>/dev/null|openssl x509 -outform PEM 4openssl s_client -showcerts -connect 193.168.51.103:6443 < /dev/null 2>/dev/null|openssl x509 -outform PEM | base64 | tr -d '\n' 5 6# Check end date: 7for i in `ls /var/lib/rancher/k3s/server/tls/*.crt`; do echo $i; openssl x509 -enddate -noout -in $i; done 8 9# More efficient: 10cd /var/lib/rancher/k3s/server/tls/ 11for crt in *.crt; do printf '%s: %s\n' "$(date --date="$(openssl x509 -enddate -noout -in "$crt"|cut -d= -f 2)" --iso-8601)" "$crt"; done | sort 12 13# Check CA issuer 14for i in $(find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -name "*.crt"); do openssl x509 -in ${i} -noout -issuer; done General Checks RKE2/K3S Nice gist to troubleshoot etcd link

Operators have 3 kinds : go, ansible, helm. 1## Init an Ansible project 2operator-sdk init --plugins=ansible --domain example.org --owner "Your name" 3 4## Command above will create a structure like: 5netbox-operator 6├── Dockerfile 7├── Makefile 8├── PROJECT 9├── config 10│ ├── crd 11│ ├── default 12│ ├── manager 13│ ├── manifests 14│ ├── prometheus 15│ ├── rbac 16│ ├── samples 17│ ├── scorecard 18│ └── testing 19├── molecule 20│ ├── default 21│ └── kind 22├── playbooks 23│ └── install.yml 24├── requirements.yml 25├── roles 26│ └── deployment 27└── watches.yaml 1## Create first role 2operator-sdk create api --group app --version v1alpha1 --kind Deployment --generate-role

Deploy a Quay.io / Mirror-registry on container Nothing original, it just the documentation of redhat, but can be usefull to kickstart a registry. Prerequisites: 10G /home 15G /var 300G /srv or /opt (regarding QuayRoot) min 2 or more vCPUs. min 8 GB of RAM. 1# packages 2sudo yum install -y podman 3sudo yum install -y rsync 4sudo yum install -y jq 5 6# Get tar 7mirror="https://mirror.openshift.com/pub/openshift-v4/clients" 8wget ${mirror}/mirror-registry/latest/mirror-registry.tar.gz 9tar zxvf mirror-registry.tar.gz 10 11# Get oc-mirror 12curl https://mirror.openshift.com/pub/openshift-v4/x86_64/clients/ocp/latest/oc-mirror.rhel9.tar.gz -O 13 14# Basic install 15sudo ./mirror-registry install \ 16 --quayHostname quay01.example.local \ 17 --quayRoot /opt 18 19# More detailed install 20sudo ./mirror-registry install \ 21 --quayHostname quay01.example.local \ 22 --quayRoot /srv \ 23 --quayStorage /srv/quay-pg \ 24 --pgStorage /srv/quay-storage \ 25 --sslCert tls.crt \ 26 --sslKey tls.key 27 28podman login -u init \ 29 -p 7u2Dm68a1s3bQvz9twrh4Nel0i5EMXUB \ 30 quay01.example.local:8443 \ 31 --tls-verify=false 32 33# By default login go in: 34cat $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/containers/auth.json 35 36# Get IP 37sudo podman inspect --format '{{range.NetworkSettings.Networks}}{{.IPAddress}}{{end}}' quay-app 38 39#unistall 40sudo ./mirror-registry uninstall -v \ 41 --quayRoot <example_directory_name> 42 43# Info 44curl -u init:password https://quay01.example.local:8443/v2/_catalog | jq 45curl -u root:password https://<url>:<port>/v2/ocp4/openshift4/tags/list | jq 46 47# Get an example of imageset 48oc-mirror init --registry quay.example.com:8443/mirror/oc-mirror-metadata 49 50# Get list of Operators, channels, packages 51oc-mirror list operators --catalog=registry.redhat.io/redhat/redhat-operator-index:v4.14 52oc-mirror list operators --catalog=registry.redhat.io/redhat/redhat-operator-index:v4.14 --package=kubevirt-hyperconverged 53oc-mirror list operators --catalog=registry.redhat.io/redhat/redhat-operator-index:v4.14 --package=kubevirt-hyperconverged --channel=stable unlock user init/admin 1QUAY_POSTGRES=`podman ps | grep quay-postgres | awk '{print $1}'` 2 3podman exec -it $QUAY_POSTGRES psql -d quay -c "UPDATE "public.user" SET invalid_login_attempts = 0 WHERE username = 'init'" Source Mirror-registry

Presentation Gita is opensource project in python to handle a bit number of projects available: Here 1# Install 2pip3 install -U gita 3 4# add repo in gita 5gita add dcc/ssg/toolset 6gita add -r dcc/ssg # recursively add 7gita add -a dcc # resursively add and auto-group based on folder structure 8 9# create a group 10gita group add docs -n ccn 11 12# Checks 13gita ls 14gita ll -g 15gita group ls 16gita group ll 17gita st dcc 18 19# Use 20gita pull ccn 21gita push ccn 22 23gita freeze

Hosted-engine Administration Connect to VM hosted-engine with root and password setup during the install: 1# Generate a backup 2engine-backup --scope=all --mode=backup --file=/root/backup --log=/root/backuplog 3 4# Restore from a backup on Fresh install 5engine-backup --mode=restore --file=file_name --log=log_file_name --provision-db --restore-permissions 6engine-setup 7 8# Restore a backup on existing install 9engine-cleanup 10engine-backup --mode=restore --file=file_name --log=log_file_name --restore-permissions 11engine-setup host Administration Connect in ssh to the Host: 1# Pass a host in maintenance mode manually 2hosted-engine --vm-status 3hosted-engine --set-maintenance --mode=global 4hosted-engine --vm-status 5 6# Remove maintenance mode 7hosted-engine --set-maintenance --mode=none 8hosted-engine --vm-status 9 10# upgrade hosted-engine 11hosted-engine --set-maintenance --mode=none 12hosted-engine --vm-status 13engine-upgrade-check 14dnf update ovirt\*setup\* # update the setup package 15engine-setup # launch it to update the engine /!\ Connect individually to KVM Virtmanager does not work OVirt use libvirt but not like KVM do…

Most usefull shortcut Ctrl + r : Search and reverse. (ctrl+r pour remonter l’history). Ctrl + l : Clear the screen (instead to use “clear” command). Ctrl + p : Repeat last command. Ctrl + x + Ctrl + e : Edit the current command on an external editor. (Need to define export EDITOR=vim ). Ctrl + shift + v : Copy / paste in linux. Ctrl + a : Move to the begin of the line. Ctrl + e : Move to the end of the line. Ctrl + xx : Move to the opposite end of the line. Ctrl + left : Move to left one word. Ctrl + right : Move to right one word.