Post-mortem: Downtime on March 23, 2018

After today’s deployment we faced a downtime of our reference server. We want to give you some insight into what happened.

Highlights of the OBS frontend development - Sprint 34

People of the Builds! Another Sprint is over and here is what the OBS frontend team has achieved in the last two weeks (2018-03-05 to 2018-03-16).

Release of the Open Build Service, Version 2.9

The Build Service Team is happy to announce the release of Open Build Service 2.9!

Among many bug fixes this release comes with a big bunch of features. Thanks to the new image template page you can branch images easily from an existing template and base your further work on it. With the kiwi editor you can further configure your image, add packages, repositories and all kind of things. All this is part of the SUSE Studio Express we started last year. Last but not least, the recently added EC2 cloud upload feature, allows you to directly upload your EC2 image from OBS to the Amazon Web Services (AWS).

We revamped our notification system, including RSS Feeds for user’s notifications, RabbitMQ support, a nicer UI for the notifications page and much more.

Post-mortem: Deployment on March 15, 2018

During yesterday’s deployment we faced some issues. We want to give you some insight into what happened.

Highlights of the OBS frontend development - Sprint 33

Another Sprint is over and here is what the OBS frontend team has achieved in the last two weeks (2018-02-19 to 2018-03-02).

Release of EC2 Cloud Upload feature

We just released the new EC2 cloud upload feature that allows you to upload your EC2 images to Amazon Web Services (AWS) from OBS.

Highlights of the OBS frontend development - Sprint 32 (X-mas Sprint)

People of the Builds! And another Sprint is over and here is what the OBS frontend team has achieved in the last two weeks (2018-02-05 to 2018-02-16).

Highlights of the OBS frontend development - Sprint 31

People of the Builds! Our last Sprint (2018-01-22 to 2018-02-02) report comes a little bit late, as our email notifications , but it is finally here!

RabbitMQ Integration

The upcoming release of OBS 2.9 will allow you to integrate your RabbitMQ server with OBS’s internal events system.

Highlights of the OBS frontend development - Sprint 30

Here are the results the OBS frontend team has achieved in the last two weeks (2018-01-08 to 2018-01-19).

Post-mortem: Deployment on January 17th, 2018

During today's deployment we faced some issues. We had to disable rabbitmq support in build.opensuse.org for some hours.

Highlights of the OBS frontend development - Sprint 29

Here are the results the OBS frontend team has achieved in the last two weeks (2017-12-11 to 2017-12-21).

Frontend Team's 2017

The year is coming to an end, all the 🎁 lie under the 🎄 and the 🍾 is already cold for 🎆. Being the good agile folks that we are, we think this is the perfect time to reflect on 2017. On all the code, the bugs and fixes, features and refactorings, the tunes and adjustments we have introduced to our code base, process and tool belt. Not only to trace the steps of our journey, but also to get ideas how to become more effective in 2018.

So let’s look at some of the highlights that have happened this year. Bear with us, this is a very long post, but one worth reading, promised!

Post-mortem: Deployment on December 14, 2017

During yesterday's deployment we faced some issues. We had to monkey patch some fixes and we want to give you some insight into what happened.

Highlights of the OBS frontend development - Sprint 28

Here are the results the OBS frontend team has achieved in the last two weeks (2017-11-27 to 2017-12-08).

Highlights of the OBS frontend development - Sprint 27

Here are the results the OBS frontend team has achieved in the last two weeks (2017-10-23 to 2017-11-09).

Highlights of the OBS frontend development - Sprint 26

Here are the results the OBS frontend team has achieved in the last two weeks (2017-10-09 to 2017-10-20).

Highlights of the OBS frontend development sprint - Sprint 25

Here are the results the OBS frontend team has achieved in the last three weeks (2017-09-19 to 2017-10-06).

Welcome SUSE Studio Express Users!

A couple of days ago (September 22, 2017) SUSE, one of our main contributors, announced that they will deprecate their SUSE Studio Online service and encourage people to use OBS instead. Studio is an web application that makes it easy to build a custom operating system as a virtual machine, raw/DVD/USB hard disk images. It is basically a frontend for the awesome KIWI command line app.

Two New Guides for Builders

Over the past couple of weeks, we, the SUSE documentation team, have been working on refreshing and restructuring the OBS documentation a bit. The goal (as it always is) was to make it easier for you, the users, to find the right information faster.