Installing openSUSE Tumbleweed on MacBook Pro 13 inch (late 2011)

It's been awhile since I looked at my old Macbook Pro 13 inch from late 2011, with 125GB SSD and 8GB RAM. I've been on occasion posting articles about how to install Linux distributions on it and thought I'd give openSUSE a try this time.

This is a machine I've taken on trips around the world and back in the day ran many sessions, workshops, and demos sharing all that developer goodness.

Below are the steps and adjustments needed to get openSUSE working on these laptops in no time.

The first step is to pick between the two options that are available to us for the desktop. I've chosen openSUSE Tumbleweed, which has the promise of "You install it once and enjoy it forever. No longer do you have to worry every six months about massive system upgrades that risk bricking your system."

The second step is to get an USB stick big enough to hold the openSUSE Tumbleweed iso image. Note we are not worried about version numbers, as you "...get frequent updates that not only address vulnerabilities or squash bugs, but reflect latest features and developments, such as fresh kernels, fresh drivers and recent desktop environment versions."

OpenSearchCon EU - Fluent Bit & OpenSearch: The Power Couple of Open Source Observability

After my adventures with the OpenSearch maintainers and developers in their booth at KubeCon NA this year, I was excited to share the results of our adventures at their OpenSearchCon EU event.

So with full enthusiasm I submitted a session about the observability power couple that is Fluent Bit and OpenSearch when used together. This would provide the attendees with a good overview of what the CNCF graduated project Fluent Bit, an end-to-end observability pipeline, can do for them. 

To complement and visualize your pipeline telemetry data, OpenSearch was added to the mix and we worked hard to provide a streamlined demo project providing the hands-on experience of setting up the entire integration. 

Let's look at the session and supporting hands-on learning content we are providing.