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by Schischke, Johannes

RHUI (Red Hat Update Infrastructure) Migration November 2024

Migration information

Currently OTC Image Factory team plans an infrastructure migration to latest Red Hat Update Infrastucture (RHUI) in German and Netherland region eu-de + eu-nl! Therefore all existing ECS servers running an OTC public image of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7-9 without BYOL are...

by Eichhorn, Andreas

NVIDIA Windows Driver Insatllation and Update with Chocolatey

General Information

Windows Server require NVIDIA grid drivers for graphic operations. These drivers require additional licensing and are not publicly available. On our OTC platform these drivers are provided as Chocolatey packages. Currently Chocolatey servers are available in region eu-de and e...

by Andreas Eichhorn

New Image Preview Windows Server 2025 Evaluation Edition

New Image "Preview_Enterprise_Windows-Server_2025_STD_amd64_uefi_latest" is published and ready for testing and evaluation. It contains plan Windows Server 2025 Evaluation Edition. This information relates to a prerelease product that may be substantially modified before it's released. It is provid...

by Schischke, Johannes

End of Maintenance Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 - June 2024

General Information

Red Hat 7 reaches it's End Of Maintenance (EOM) status very soon (30th June 2024). After this date only yum package updates are guranteed by subscribing to Extended Lifecycle Support (ELS) repositories. Only OTC Red Hat 7 public image customers (BYOL excluded) are allowed and c...

by Mushtaq, Obaid

SLES Offline Upgrade

Background

The Open Telekom Cloud (OTC) does not directly support the SLES distribution upgrade process, e.g. using "zypper dist-upgrade". As we have described in an earlier blog post, we could achieve dist-upgrade by changing the repos and performing the online upgrade. However, as outlined by...