This guide introduces the SUSE ALP Dolomite (ALP Dolomite)—its deployment, system management and software installation as well as running of containerized workloads. To enhance this ALP Dolomite documentation, find its sources at https://github.com/SUSE/doc-modular/edit/main/xml/.
- WHAT?
ALP Dolomite is a minimal operating system that allows customers to run their workloads in a containerized or virtualized form. Typically, ALP Dolomite is deployed on bare-metal servers and runs data center-oriented workloads.
- WHY?
This guide introduces an overview of ALP Dolomite. It describes steps required to deploy and administer ALP Dolomite as well as install and manage SUSE workloads.
- EFFORT
Although ALP Dolomite is a complex platform, its basic deployment takes less than 30 minutes. More advanced topics, such as using the
transactional-updatecommand, or installing and configuring containerized SUSE workloads, take considerably more time.- REQUIREMENTS
To understand the concepts and perform tasks described in this guide, you need to have good knowledge and practice with the SUSE Linux operating system.
- 1 What is ALP Dolomite?
- 2 Deployment
- 3 Transactional updates
- 4 Containers and Podman
- 5 SUSE Workloads
- 5.1 Common requirements
- 5.2 Running the YaST workload using Podman
- 5.3 Running the KVM virtualization workload using Podman
- 5.4 Running the Cockpit Web server using Podman
- 5.5 Running the GNOME Display Manager workload using Podman
- 5.6 Running
firewalldusing Podman - 5.7 Running the Grafana workload using Podman
- 5.8 Running the NeuVector workload using Podman
- 5.9 Running the Ansible workload using Podman
- 5.10 Running the Kea DHCP server using Podman
- 5.11 For more information
- 6 Creating customized VMs using
virt-scenario - 7 Remote attestation using Keylime
- 8 Scheduling jobs using
systemdtimers - A Legal Notice
- B GNU Free Documentation License
- 2.1 Set UEFI firmware for the encrypted ALP Dolomite image
- 2.2 Add an emulated TPM device
- 2.3 Agama installer main menu
- 2.4 Configuring the network
- 2.5 Configuring storage
- 2.6 Editing file system properties
- 2.7 Discover iSCSI targets
- 2.8 Adding a new iSCSI target
- 2.9 DASD storage contextual menu (IBM Z)
- 2.10 Adding new users
- 2.11 Login prompt inside the z/VM console
- 2.12 Booting the installation image
- 2.13 Installation welcome screen
- 2.14 Enter root password
- 2.15 Select method for encryption
- 4.1 Pods architecture
- 4.2 Committing a container in Cockpit
- 5.1 YaST running in text mode on ALP Dolomite
- 5.2 Running graphical YaST on top of ALP Dolomite
- 5.3 Cockpit running on ALP Dolomite
- 5.4 Software updates in Cockpit
- 5.5 GNOME Settings on top of ALP Dolomite
- 5.6 Grafana data sources
- 5.7 Prometheus URL configuration in Grafana
- 5.8 Creating a Grafana dashboard
- 5.9 New Grafana dashboard
- 6.1
virt-scenariowelcome screen