Replacing Aria Orchestrator, Part 3: forms, schedules, approved content and workflows with SUSE Multi-Linux Manager

Part 3 of replacing Aria Orchestrator: four day-2 patterns that Aria users rely on, rebuilt in SUSE Multi-Linux Manager. A Salt formula with a web form, a recurring highstate on a system group, dev and prod content snapshots, and an action chain that upgrades an outdated package, reapplies the state and runs a smoke test.

November 3, 2026 · 8 min · Alejandro Bonilla

Replacing Aria Orchestrator, Part 2: reusing Salt states with SUSE Multi-Linux Manager

Part 2 of replacing Aria Orchestrator: the Salt state an Aria cloud template applies runs unchanged from SUSE Multi-Linux Manager. A VM bootstraps itself with cloud-init on SUSE Virtualization, registers with an activation key, gets WordPress from a highstate, and is then changed and kept in line from SUSE Multi-Linux Manager.

November 2, 2026 · 13 min · Alejandro Bonilla