"gravy" is a stretch. This picture looks way better than the reality. Cream soup and usually some bread crumbs or noodles to stretch it. If there was flavor, it was the salt from the tots.
Definitely easy with a couple tools. The hardest things will be making sure you can get purchase on the Allen screw (use the hook to clean it out) and to yank the old seal out. I stabbed it with the hook and grabbed it with the pliers. That's really all there was to it. The installation is cake.
Yes, it leaks. Water will come out around the portafilter and pressure won't build. In both cases, this has been sudden failure and being left without coffee for the day would be horrific. I have a pour over and a french press handy, so we didn't suffer.
4mm Allen wrench to free the shower screen, a cheap hook or even a small screwdriver and a needle nose pliers to pull the old gasket out (what I used).
I just bought a 2 pack of silicone gaskets for under $10.
I cleaned everything up before seating the new gasket (poked a damp rag up there with the hook).
Good as new in under 15min. I made 4 doubles afterwards today.
This one was silicone, and the one I happened to get shipped overnight in March 2021 (it lasted almost exactly 4 years, had to go look it up to confirm it was silicone). Not sure why they chose green. I was trying to highlight the failure and the section of bead tore off. There's more damage from me jamming a hook into it to pull it out. I wish it were easier to get it out for periodic cleaning and inspection. I'll have to look into that.
I replaced it with another silicone gasket (this time off-white) and now have a backup handy.
I'd be interested to know if there's a way to predict failure or if there's a good schedule to follow!
What age do service accounts get? I have "user accounts" that exist purely to run services and are not intended for login. Several of these are owned by the team and not an individual. Who provides the age verification for those?
It has been 7 or 8 years since I touched it, but yes. I extended some intern-built VMware automation to ovirt so we could validate KVM images and reduce VMware costs for internal dev and because that was the platform the manager decided on. We initially only dedicated 6U or 8U to it.
In general, I'd say it worked just fine and the python sdk was approachable. It wouldn't be my first choice knowing it's Oracle Virtualization now, but that's a moral stance instead of technical.
As for maintaining it long term, I can't really say. I left that team to go play in the clouds with terraform and kubernetes. But I also haven't heard anything negative from that team since (and I'm still friends with one of the system engineers who is responsible for it). And there was a much needed fundamental rewrite of the bits I original extended that continued with ovirt that went smoothly.
It sounds like you want to create a vm template image.
Some options:
Both virsh and virt-manager have tools for managing libvirt xml files that you can turn into a template to use for launching additional images.
Proxmox and ovirt both have template concepts and APIs you can interact with for automation.
If you're looking to create a golden image or just automate configuration, virt-clone, ansible, puppet, packer, and even pxe boot are good options depending on the methods you prefer.
There are so many well-established ways to approach this problem domain. Just don't get decision paralysis. There isn't a best either.
Bold of you to assume people/companies test backups more than once.
Case in point: I once got instructed to "enable EBS snapshots" for customer deployments to meet a new backup requirement. Disaster recovery was a completely different feature we only kind of got to a couple years later and afaik, remains manual to this day.
For sure, but good cheese curds are amazing.