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USAF starts new 'family' program of state-of-the-art refuelers with request for information

Fernando Valduga By Fernando Valduga 06/30/2022 - 12:00 PM in Military

The U.S. Air Force (USAF) placed another "nake in the coffin" of a potential tanker aircraft competition with the launch of the Advanced Aerial Refueling Family of Systems (AAR FoS) program.

In a request for information from the U.S. Air Force Lifecycle Management Center (AFLCMC), the service informed the aviation industry that it is seeking significant improvements in existing tankers, while seeking to define a much more capable future system. Among the new missions of tankers will be electronic warfare and the refueling of unmanned aircraft.

In a June 22 announcement, the AFLCMC called the AAR FoS “an evolutionary approach to adding new capacity to the current fleet of tanker aircraft (KC46A/KC-135R/T), while developing the general requirements for a new refueling aircraft”. This two-way approach "will more effectively implement solutions that improve the operations of the tanker fleet".

New refueling aircraft family is expected to replace all current aircraft of this function in the USAF: KC-135, KC-10 and KC-46.

While some of the "new and mature technologies" sought after by the industry will be used to upgrade the KC-46 and KCX-135, others "in the early stages of development and maturation" will continue to be developed for the still indefinite KC-Z effort, which has been described by transport leaders as a potentially smaller and stealthy aircraft that can escort fighters

"Current and future tankers will be required to command, control and communicate globally efficiently, navigate accurately in degraded environments and carry out high-paced operations in contested environments," the U.S. Air Force said.

Among the capabilities that tankers will need are:

Connectivity: "resilient line of sight (LOS) and beyond line of sight (BLOS) with aerial connectivity with the future Joint Command and Control of All Domains environment (JADC2)"

Open architecture design, federated systems and data streams;

Alternative forms of positioning, navigation and time (PNT)

Tanker planes will also have to have “greater survivability and mission effectiveness, greater situational awareness that enhances situational understanding, electronic warfare (EW)/electronic attack (EA) on board and ... interoperability with external autonomous collaborative platforms”.

The latter, known as ACPs, are unmanned aircraft that will escort future manned combat aircraft, performing missions such as electronic attack and suppression of enemy air defenses, as well as intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, and as flight teams with extra weapons. The manned aircraft designates the target for the unmanned aircraft missile to be fired.

The U.S. Air Force has several times started a program to equip the B-52 with an electronic warfare capability throughout the theater called the B-52 Stand Off Jammer, but the program was canceled every time due to budget considerations. Service officials have long said that tankers would be suitable for this role due to their proximity to the action.

The capabilities of the System Family need to inject agility into the mission, facilitating "fast operations, improved fuel efficiency, improved maintenance procedures, improved access to the aerodrome and reduced maintenance requirements and logistical support," said the U.S. Air Force.

As these new features are inserted into existing tankers and as new technologies are developed, the combination “will shape the requirements for future refueling aircraft,” the service said.

The minimum requirements for improved tanker capacity may involve, but are not limited to, "survival (kinetic and non-kinetic defensive systems); Real-Time Situational Awareness; Connectivity/Data; Interoperability" and "autonomous refueling operations as a refueler or receiver for manned and unmanned platforms, in boom and hose configurations".

By launching new technologies, the U.S. Air Force wants respondents to declare the level of technological readiness (TRL) of the capabilities being proposed. A TRL indicates whether a new technology is still in the concept/experimental stage (TRLs 1-2) or practically ready for production (TRL 6-7), or already operationally proven (TRL 10). The service also wants cost estimates and proposed schedules for the insertion of these technologies, if they have been applied in other programs, and any form/adjustment/function problems that may arise.

The U.S. Air Force wants to hear from companies interested in offering new features by July 8.

Since the 2023 fiscal budget request was submitted to Congress, Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall has minimized the possibility of a "bridge replenisher" competition for the so-called KC-Y, saying that the requirements developed so far would probably be more economical achieved by an updated version of the KC-46A, built by Boeing.

Lockheed is still waiting for a "bridge aircraft" competition where it can offer Airbus' A330 MRTT.

Air Force officials also said in particular that, if it can avoid it, the service would like to avoid adding a new platform, which would require the logistical support of a warehouse, a spare parts pipeline and military construction to accommodate a different plane.

Source: Air Force Magazine

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In this guide we will perform an installation of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.11 on KVM Virtual Machines. OpenShift is a powerful, platform agnostic, enterprise-grade Kubernetes distribution focused on developer experience and application security. The project is developed and owned by Red Hat Software company. OpenShift Container Platform is built around containers orchestrated and managed by Kubernetes on a foundation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The OpenShift platform offers automated installation, upgrades, and lifecycle management throughout the container stack – from the operating system, Kubernetes and cluster services, to deployed applications. Operating system that will be used on both the Control plan and Worker machines is Red Hat CoreOS (RHCOS). The RHCOS OS includes the kubelet, which is the Kubernetes node agent, and the CRI-O container runtime optimized for Kubernetes workloads. In my installation the deployment is performed on a single node KVM compute server. This is not a production setup with high availability and should only be used for proof-of-concept and demo related purposes. Red Hat’s recommendation on each cluster virtual machine minimum hardware requirements is as shown in the table below: Virtual Machine Operating System vCPU Virtual RAM Storage Bootstrap RHCOS 4 16 GB 120 GB Control plane RHCOS 4 16 GB 120 GB Compute RHCOS 2 8 GB 120 GB But the preferred requirements for each cluster virtual machine are: Virtual Machine Operating System vCPU Virtual RAM Storage Bootstrap RHCOS 4 16 GB 120 GB Control plane RHCOS 8 16 GB 120 GB Compute RHCOS 6 8 GB 120 GB The shared hardware requirements information for the virtual machines is not accurate since it depends on the workloads and desired cluster size when running in Production. Sizing can be done as deemed fit. My Lab environment variables OpenShift 4 Cluster base domain: example.com ( to be substituted accordingly) OpenShift 4 Cluster name: ocp4 ( to be substituted accordingly) OpenShift KVM network bridge: openshift4 OpenShift Network Block: 192.168.100.0/24 OpenShift Network gateway address: 192.168.100.1 Bastion / Helper node IP Address (Runs DHCP, Apache httpd, HAProxy, PXE, DNS) – 192.168.100.254 NTP server used: time.google.com Used Mac Addresses and IP Addresses: Machine Name Mac Address (Generate yours and use) DHCP Reserved IP Address bootstrap.ocp4.example.com 52:54:00:a4:db:5f 192.168.100.10 master01.ocp4.example.com 52:54:00:8b:a1:17 192.168.100.11 master02.ocp4.example.com 52:54:00:ea:8b:9d 192.168.100.12 master03.ocp4.example.com 52:54:00:f8:87:c7 192.168.100.13 worker01.ocp4.example.com 52:54:00:31:4a:39 192.168.100.21 worker02.ocp4.example.com 52:54:00:6a:37:32 192.168.100.22 worker03.ocp4.example.com 52:54:00:95:d4:ed 192.168.100.23 Step 1: Setup KVM Infrastructure (On Hypervisor Node) Install KVM in your hypervisor node using any of the guides in below links: Install KVM Hypervisor on Ubuntu How To Install KVM Hypervisor on Debian Install KVM on RHEL 8 / CentOS 8 / Rocky Linux After installation verify your server CPU has support for Intel VT or AMD-V Virtualization extensions: cat /proc/cpuinfo | egrep "vmx|svm" Creating Virtual Network (optional, you can use existing network) Create a new virtual network configuration file vim virt-net.xml File contents: openshift4 Create a virtual network using this file file created; modify if need be: $ sudo virsh net-define --file virt-net.xml Network openshift4 defined from virt-net.xml Set the network to autostart on boot $ sudo virsh net-autostart openshift4 Network openshift4 marked as autostarted $ sudo virsh net-start openshift4 Network openshift4 started Confirm that the bridge is available and active:

$ brctl show bridge name bridge id STP enabled interfaces openshift4 8000.5254002b479a yes virbr0 8000.525400ad641d yes Step 2: Create Bastion / Helper Virtual Machine Create a Virtual Machine that will host some key services from officially provided virt-builder images. The virtual machine will be used to run the following services: DNS Server (Bind) Apache httpd web server HAProxy Load balancer DHCP & PXE/TFTP services It will also be our bastion server for deploying and managing OpenShift platform (oc, openshift-install, kubectl, ansible) Let’s first display available OS templates with command below: $ virt-builder -l I’ll create a VM image from fedora-36 template; you can also choose a CentOS template(8 or 7): sudo virt-builder fedora-36 --format qcow2 \ --size 20G -o /var/lib/libvirt/images/ocp-bastion-server.qcow2 \ --root-password password:StrongRootPassw0rd Where: fedora-36 is the template used to create a new virtual machine /var/lib/libvirt/images/ocp-bastion-server.qcow2 is the path to VM qcow2 image StrongRootPassw0rd is the root user password VM image creation progress will be visible in your screen [ 1.0] Downloading: http://builder.libguestfs.org/fedora-36.xz ########################################################################################################################################################### 100.0% [ 15.3] Planning how to build this image [ 15.3] Uncompressing [ 18.2] Resizing (using virt-resize) to expand the disk to 20.0G [ 39.7] Opening the new disk [ 44.1] Setting a random seed [ 44.1] Setting passwords [ 45.1] Finishing off Output file: /var/lib/libvirt/images/ocp-bastion-server.qcow2 Output size: 20.0G Output format: qcow2 Total usable space: 20.0G Free space: 19.0G (94%) Now create a Virtual Machine to be used as DNS and DHCP server with virt-install Using Linux bridge: sudo virt-install \ --name ocp-bastion-server \ --ram 4096 \ --vcpus 2 \ --disk path=/var/lib/libvirt/images/ocp-bastion-server.qcow2 \ --os-type linux \ --os-variant rhel8.0 \ --network bridge=openshift4 \ --graphics none \ --serial pty \ --console pty \ --boot hd \ --import Using openVSwitch bridge: Ref How To Use Open vSwitch Bridge on KVM Virtual Machines sudo virt-install \ --name ocp-bastion-server \ --ram 4096 \ --disk path=/var/lib/libvirt/images/ocp-bastion-server.qcow2 \ --vcpus 2 \ --os-type linux \ --os-variant rhel8.0 \ --network=bridge:openshift4,model=virtio,virtualport_type=openvswitch \ --graphics none \ --serial pty \ --console pty \ --boot hd \ --import When your VM is created and running login as root user and password set initially: Fedora 36 (Thirty Six) Kernel 5.xx.fc36.x86_64 on an x86_64 (ttyS0) fedora login: root Password: StrongRootPassw0rd You can reset root password after installation if that’s your desired action: [root@fedora ~]# passwd Changing password for user root. New password: Retype new password: passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully. If the server didn’t get IP address from DHCP server you can set static IP manually on the primary interface: # ip link show 1: lo: mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000 link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 2: enp1s0: mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000 link/ether 52:54:00:21:fb:33 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff # vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-enp1s0 NAME="enp1s0" # Set network name, usually same as device name DEVICE="enp1s0" # Set your interface name as shown while running ip link show command ONBOOT="yes" NETBOOT="yes" BOOTPROTO="none" TYPE="Ethernet" PROXY_METHOD="none" BROWSER_ONLY="no" DEFROUTE="yes" IPADDR=192.168.100.254 # Set your VM IP address

PREFIX=27 # Set Netmask Prefix GATEWAY=192.168.100.1 # Set network gateway IP address DNS1=8.8.8.8 # Set first DNS server to be used DNS2=8.8.4.4 # Set secondary DNS server to be used # Once configured bring up the interface using ifup command # ifup enp1s0 Connection successfully activated (D-Bus active path: /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/ActiveConnection/7) Test external connectivity from the VM: # ping -c 2 8.8.8.8 PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=1 ttl=117 time=4.98 ms 64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=2 ttl=117 time=5.14 ms --- 8.8.8.8 ping statistics --- 2 packets transmitted, 2 received, 0% packet loss, time 1001ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 4.981/5.061/5.142/0.080 ms # ping -c 2 google.com PING google.com (172.217.18.110) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from zrh04s05-in-f110.1e100.net (172.217.18.110): icmp_seq=1 ttl=118 time=4.97 ms 64 bytes from fra16s42-in-f14.1e100.net (172.217.18.110): icmp_seq=2 ttl=118 time=5.05 ms --- google.com ping statistics --- 2 packets transmitted, 2 received, 0% packet loss, time 1002ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 4.971/5.008/5.045/0.037 ms Perform OS upgrade before deploying other services. sudo dnf -y upgrade sudo dnf -y install git vim wget curl bash-completion tree tar libselinux-python3 firewalld Reboot the server after the upgrade is done. sudo reboot Confirm you can access the VM through virsh console or ssh $ sudo virsh list Id Name State ------------------------------------- 1 ocp-bastion-server running $ sudo virsh console ocp-bastion-server Connected to domain 'ocp-bastion-server' Escape character is ^] (Ctrl + ]) fedora login: Enable domain autostart: sudo virsh autostart ocp-bastion-server Step 3: Install Ansible and Configure variables on Bastion / Helper node Install Ansible configuration management tool on the Bastion machine # Fedora sudo dnf -y install git ansible vim wget curl bash-completion tree tar libselinux-python3 # CentOS 8 / Rocky Linux 8 sudo yum -y install epel-release sudo yum -y install git ansible vim wget curl bash-completion tree tar libselinux-python3 # CentOS 7 sudo yum -y install epel-release sudo yum -y install git ansible vim wget curl bash-completion tree tar libselinux-python We have a Github repository with all the tasks and templates used in this guide. Clone the project to ~/ocp4_ansible directory. cd ~/ git clone https://github.com/jmutai/ocp4_ansible.git cd ~/ocp4_ansible You can view the directory structure using tree command: $ tree . ├── ansible.cfg ├── files │ └── set-dns-serial.sh ├── handlers │ └── main.yml ├── inventory ├── LICENSE ├── README.md ├── tasks │ ├── configure_bind_dns.yml │ ├── configure_dhcpd.yml │ ├── configure_haproxy_lb.yml │ └── configure_tftp_pxe.yml ├── templates │ ├── default.j2 │ ├── dhcpd.conf.j2 │ ├── dhcpd-uefi.conf.j2 │ ├── haproxy.cfg.j2 │ ├── named.conf.j2 │ ├── pxe-bootstrap.j2 │ ├── pxe-master.j2 │ ├── pxe-worker.j2 │ ├── reverse.j2 │ └── zonefile.j2 └── vars └── main.yml 5 directories, 21 files Edit ansible configuration file and modify to suit your use. $ vim ansible.cfg [defaults] inventory = inventory command_warnings = False filter_plugins = filter_plugins host_key_checking = False deprecation_warnings=False retry_files = false When not executing ansible as root user you can addprivilege_escalation section. [privilege_escalation] become = true become_method = sudo become_user = root become_ask_pass = false If running on the localhost the inventory can be set as below: $ vim inventory [vmhost] localhost ansible_connection=local These are service handlers created and will be referenced in bastion setup process tasks. $ vim handlers/main.yml --- - name: restart tftp service: name: tftp state: restarted - name: restart bind service:

name: named state: restarted - name: restart haproxy service: name: haproxy state: restarted - name: restart dhcpd service: name: dhcpd state: restarted - name: restart httpd service: name: httpd state: restarted Modify the default variables file inside vars folder: vim vars/main.yml Define all the variables required correctly. Be careful not to have wrong values which will cause issues at the time of OpenShift installation. --- ppc64le: false uefi: false disk: vda #disk where you are installing RHCOS on the masters/workers helper: name: "bastion" #hostname for your helper node ipaddr: "192.168.100.254" #current IP address of the helper networkifacename: "ens3" #interface of the helper node,ACTUAL name of the interface, NOT the NetworkManager name dns: domain: "example.com" #DNS server domain. Should match baseDomain inside the install-config.yaml file. clusterid: "ocp4" #needs to match what you will for metadata.name inside the install-config.yaml file forwarder1: "8.8.8.8" #DNS forwarder forwarder2: "1.1.1.1" #second DNS forwarder lb_ipaddr: " helper.ipaddr " #Load balancer IP, it is optional, the default value is helper.ipaddr dhcp: router: "192.168.100.1" #default gateway of the network assigned to the masters/workers bcast: "192.168.100.255" #broadcast address for your network netmask: "255.255.255.0" #netmask that gets assigned to your masters/workers poolstart: "192.168.100.10" #First address in your dhcp address pool poolend: "192.168.100.50" #Last address in your dhcp address pool ipid: "192.168.100.0" #ip network id for the range netmaskid: "255.255.255.0" #networkmask id for the range. ntp: "time.google.com" #ntp server address dns: "" #domain name server, it is optional, the default value is set to helper.ipaddr bootstrap: name: "bootstrap" #hostname (WITHOUT the fqdn) of the bootstrap node ipaddr: "192.168.100.10" #IP address that you want set for bootstrap node macaddr: "52:54:00:a4:db:5f" #The mac address for dhcp reservation masters: - name: "master01" #hostname (WITHOUT the fqdn) of the master node (x of 3) ipaddr: "192.168.100.11" #The IP address (x of 3) that you want set macaddr: "52:54:00:8b:a1:17" #The mac address for dhcp reservation - name: "master02" ipaddr: "192.168.100.12" macaddr: "52:54:00:ea:8b:9d" - name: "master03" ipaddr: "192.168.100.13" macaddr: "52:54:00:f8:87:c7" workers: - name: "worker01" #hostname (WITHOUT the fqdn) of the worker node you want to set ipaddr: "192.168.100.21" #The IP address that you want set (1st node) macaddr: "52:54:00:31:4a:39" #The mac address for dhcp reservation (1st node) - name: "worker02" ipaddr: "192.168.100.22" macaddr: "52:54:00:6a:37:32" - name: "worker03" ipaddr: "192.168.100.23" macaddr: "52:54:00:95:d4:ed" Generating unique mac addresses for bootstrap, worker and master nodes You can generate all required mac addresses using the command below: date +%s | md5sum | head -c 6 | sed -e 's/$[0-9A-Fa-f]\2\$/\1:/g' -e 's/$.*$:$/\1/' | sed -e 's/^/52:54:00:/' Step 4: Install and Configure DHCP serveron Bastion / Helper node Install dhcp-server rpm package using dnf or yum package manager. sudo yum -y install dhcp-server Enable dhcpd service to start on system boot $ sudo systemctl enable dhcpd Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/dhcpd.service → /usr/lib/systemd/system/dhcpd.service.

Backup current dhcpd configuration file. If the server is not new you can modify existing configuration sudo mv /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf.bak Task to configure dhcp server on the bastion server: $ vim tasks/configure_dhcpd.yml --- # Setup OCP4 DHCP Server on Helper Node - hosts: all vars_files: - ../vars/main.yml handlers: - import_tasks: ../handlers/main.yml tasks: - name: Write out dhcp file template: src: ../templates/dhcpd.conf.j2 dest: /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf notify: - restart dhcpd when: not uefi - name: Write out dhcp file (UEFI) template: src: ../templates/dhcpd-uefi.conf.j2 dest: /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf notify: - restart dhcpd when: uefi Configure DHCP server using ansible, defined variables and templates shared. $ ansible-playbook tasks/configure_dhcpd.yml PLAY [all] ******************************************************************************************************************************************************* TASK [Gathering Facts] ******************************************************************************************************************************************* ok: [localhost] TASK [Write out dhcp file] *************************************************************************************************************************************** changed: [localhost] TASK [Write out dhcp file (UEFI)] ******************************************************************************************************************************** skipping: [localhost] RUNNING HANDLER [restart dhcpd] ********************************************************************************************************************************** changed: [localhost] PLAY RECAP ******************************************************************************************************************************************************* localhost : ok=3 changed=2 unreachable=0 failed=0 skipped=1 rescued=0 ignored=0 Confirm that dhcpd service is in running state: $ systemctl status dhcpd ● dhcpd.service - DHCPv4 Server Daemon Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/dhcpd.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled) Active: active (running) since Tue 2021-08-17 19:35:06 EDT; 2min 42s ago Docs: man:dhcpd(8) man:dhcpd.conf(5) Main PID: 24958 (dhcpd) Status: "Dispatching packets..." Tasks: 1 (limit: 4668) Memory: 9.7M CPU: 17ms CGroup: /system.slice/dhcpd.service └─24958 /usr/sbin/dhcpd -f -cf /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf -user dhcpd -group dhcpd --no-pid ... You can as well check generated configuration file: $ cat /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf Step 4: Configure OCP Zone on Bind DNS Serveron Bastion / Helper node We can now begin the installation of DNS and DHCP server packages required to run OpenShift Container Platform on KVM. sudo yum -y install bind bind-utils Enable the service to start at system boot up sudo systemctl enable named Install DNS Serialnumber generator script: $ sudo vim /usr/local/bin/set-dns-serial.sh #!/bin/bash dnsserialfile=/usr/local/src/dnsserial-DO_NOT_DELETE_BEFORE_ASKING_CHRISTIAN.txt zonefile=/var/named/zonefile.db if [ -f zonefile ] ; then echo $[ $(grep serial $zonefile | tr -d "\t"" ""\n" | cut -d';' -f 1) + 1 ] | tee $dnsserialfile else if [ ! -f $dnsserialfile ] || [ ! -s $dnsserialfile ]; then echo $(date +%Y%m%d00) | tee $dnsserialfile else echo $[ $(< $dnsserialfile) + 1 ] | tee $dnsserialfile fi fi ## ##-30- Make the script executable: sudo chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/set-dns-serial.sh This is the DNS Configuration task to be used: $ vim tasks/configure_bind_dns.yml --- # Configure OCP4 DNS Server on Helper Node - hosts: all vars_files: - ../vars/main.yml handlers: - import_tasks: ../handlers/main.yml tasks: - name: Setup named configuration files

block: - name: Write out named file template: src: ../templates/named.conf.j2 dest: /etc/named.conf notify: - restart bind - name: Set zone serial number shell: "/usr/local/bin/set-dns-serial.sh" register: dymanicserialnumber - name: Setting serial number as a fact set_fact: serialnumber: " dymanicserialnumber.stdout " - name: Write out " lower " zone file template: src: ../templates/zonefile.j2 dest: /var/named/zonefile.db mode: '0644' notify: - restart bind - name: Write out reverse zone file template: src: ../templates/reverse.j2 dest: /var/named/reverse.db mode: '0644' notify: - restart bind Run ansible playbook to configure bind dns server for OpenShift deployment. $ ansible-playbook tasks/configure_bind_dns.yml ansible-playbook tasks/configure_bind_dns.yml PLAY [all] ******************************************************************************************************************************************************* TASK [Gathering Facts] ******************************************************************************************************************************************* ok: [localhost] TASK [Write out named file] ************************************************************************************************************************************** changed: [localhost] TASK [Set zone serial number] ************************************************************************************************************************************ changed: [localhost] TASK [Setting serial number as a fact] *************************************************************************************************************************** changed: [localhost] TASK [Write out "example.com" zone file] ********************************************************************************************************************** changed: [localhost] TASK [Write out reverse zone file] ******************************************************************************************************************************* changed: [localhost] RUNNING HANDLER [restart bind] *********************************************************************************************************************************** changed: [localhost] PLAY RECAP ******************************************************************************************************************************************************* localhost : ok=7 changed=6 unreachable=0 failed=0 skipped=0 rescued=0 ignored=0 Forward DNS zone file is created under /var/named/zonefile.db and reverse DNS lookup file is /var/named/reverse.db Check if the service is in running status: $ systemctl status named ● named.service - Berkeley Internet Name Domain (DNS) Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/named.service; disabled; vendor preset: disabled) Active: active (running) since Wed 2021-08-11 16:19:38 EDT; 4s ago Process: 1340 ExecStartPre=/bin/bash -c if [ ! "$DISABLE_ZONE_CHECKING" == "yes" ]; then /usr/sbin/named-checkconf -z "$NAMEDCONF"; else echo "Checking of zo> Process: 1342 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/named -u named -c $NAMEDCONF $OPTIONS (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Main PID: 1344 (named) Tasks: 6 (limit: 4668) Memory: 26.3M CPU: 53ms CGroup: /system.slice/named.service └─1344 /usr/sbin/named -u named -c /etc/named.conf Aug 11 16:19:38 fedora named[1344]: network unreachable resolving './NS/IN': 2001:500:1::53#53 Aug 11 16:19:38 fedora named[1344]: network unreachable resolving './NS/IN': 2001:500:200::b#53 Aug 11 16:19:38 fedora named[1344]: network unreachable resolving './NS/IN': 2001:500:9f::42#53 Aug 11 16:19:38 fedora named[1344]: network unreachable resolving './NS/IN': 2001:7fe::53#53

Aug 11 16:19:38 fedora named[1344]: network unreachable resolving './NS/IN': 2001:503:c27::2:30#53 Aug 11 16:19:38 fedora named[1344]: zone 1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.ip6.arpa/IN: loaded serial 0 Aug 11 16:19:38 fedora named[1344]: all zones loaded Aug 11 16:19:38 fedora named[1344]: managed-keys-zone: Initializing automatic trust anchor management for zone '.'; DNSKEY ID 20326 is now trusted, waiving the n> Aug 11 16:19:38 fedora named[1344]: running Aug 11 16:19:38 fedora systemd[1]: Started Berkeley Internet Name Domain (DNS). To test our DNS server we just execute: $ dig @127.0.0.1 -t srv _etcd-server-ssl._tcp.ocp4.example.com ; DiG 9.16.19-RH @127.0.0.1 -t srv _etcd-server-ssl._tcp.ocp4.example.com ; (1 server found) ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER (item='name': 'master01', 'ipaddr': '192.168.100.11', 'macaddr': '52:54:00:8b:a1:17') changed: [localhost] => (item='name': 'master02', 'ipaddr': '192.168.100.12', 'macaddr': '52:54:00:ea:8b:9d') changed: [localhost] => (item='name': 'master03', 'ipaddr': '192.168.100.13', 'macaddr': '52:54:00:f8:87:c7') TASK [Set the worker specific tftp files] ************************************************************************************************************************ changed: [localhost] => (item='name': 'worker01', 'ipaddr': '192.168.100.21', 'macaddr': '52:54:00:31:4a:39') changed: [localhost] => (item='name': 'worker02', 'ipaddr': '192.168.100.22', 'macaddr': '52:54:00:6a:37:32') changed: [localhost] => (item='name': 'worker03', 'ipaddr': '192.168.100.23', 'macaddr': '52:54:00:95:d4:ed') RUNNING HANDLER [restart tftp] *********************************************************************************************************************************** changed: [localhost] PLAY RECAP ******************************************************************************************************************************************************* localhost : ok=5 changed=4 unreachable=0 failed=0 skipped=0 rescued=0 ignored=0 Headless environment considerations With the consideration of the fact that we’re working in a headless environment, minimal setup of KVM without graphical interface. We need to ensure CoreOS booted VM will automatically choose the correct image and ignition file for the OS installation. PXE Boot files are created inside the directory /var/lib/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg NOTE: Each of the file created should have a 01- before the MAC Address. See below example of bootstrap node. Bootstrap node Mac Address: 52:54:00:a4:db:5f The file created will be cat /var/lib/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/01-52-54-00-a4-db-5f With contents: default menu.c32 prompt 1 timeout 9 ONTIMEOUT 1 menu title ######## PXE Boot Menu ######## label 1 menu label ^1) Install Bootstrap Node menu default kernel rhcos/kernel append initrd=rhcos/initramfs.img nomodeset rd.neednet=1 console=tty0 console=ttyS0 ip=dhcp coreos.inst=yes coreos.inst.install_dev=vda coreos.live.rootfs_url=http://192.168.100.254:8080/rhcos/rootfs.img coreos.inst.ignition_url=http://192.168.100.254:8080/ignition/bootstrap.ign Master nodes The file for each master has contents similar to this: default menu.c32 prompt 1 timeout 9 ONTIMEOUT 1 menu title ######## PXE Boot Menu ######## label 1 menu label ^1) Install Master Node menu default kernel rhcos/kernel append initrd=rhcos/initramfs.img nomodeset rd.neednet=1 console=tty0 console=ttyS0 ip=dhcp coreos.inst=yes coreos.inst.install_dev=vda coreos.live.rootfs_url=http://192.168.100.254:8080/rhcos/rootfs.img coreos.inst.ignition_url=http://192.168.100.254:8080/ignition/master.ign Worker nodes The file for each worker node will looks similar to this: default menu.c32 prompt 1 timeout 9 ONTIMEOUT 1 menu title ######## PXE Boot Menu ######## label 1 menu label ^1) Install Worker Node menu default kernel rhcos/kernel

append initrd=rhcos/initramfs.img nomodeset rd.neednet=1 console=tty0 console=ttyS0 ip=dhcp coreos.inst=yes coreos.inst.install_dev=vda coreos.live.rootfs_url=http://192.168.100.254:8080/rhcos/rootfs.img coreos.inst.ignition_url=http://192.168.100.254:8080/ignition/worker.ign You can list all the files created using the following command: $ ls -1 /var/lib/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg 01-52:54:00:31:4a:39 01-52:54:00:6a:37:32 01-52:54:00:8b:a1:17 01-52:54:00:95:d4:ed 01-52:54:00:a4:db:5f 01-52:54:00:ea:8b:9d 01-52:54:00:f8:87:c7 Step 6: Configure HAProxy as Load balanceron Bastion / Helper node In this setup we’re using a software load balancer solution – HAProxy. In a Production setup of OpenShift Container Platform a hardware or highly available load balancer solution is required. Install the package sudo yum install -y haproxy Set SEBool to allow haproxy connect any port: sudo setsebool -P haproxy_connect_any 1 Backup the default HAProxy configuration sudo mv /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg.default Here is HAProxy configuration ansible task: $ vim tasks/configure_haproxy_lb.yml --- # Configure OCP4 HAProxy Load balancer on Helper Node - hosts: all vars_files: - ../vars/main.yml tasks: - name: Write out haproxy config file template: src: ../templates/haproxy.cfg.j2 dest: /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg notify: - restart haproxy handlers: - name: restart haproxy ansible.builtin.service: name: haproxy state: restarted Run ansible-playbook using created task to configure HAProxy Load balancer for OpenShift $ ansible-playbook tasks/configure_haproxy_lb.yml PLAY [all] ******************************************************************************************************************************************************* TASK [Gathering Facts] ******************************************************************************************************************************************* ok: [localhost] TASK [Write out haproxy config file] ***************************************************************************************************************************** changed: [localhost] RUNNING HANDLER [restart haproxy] ******************************************************************************************************************************** changed: [localhost] PLAY RECAP ******************************************************************************************************************************************************* localhost : ok=3 changed=2 unreachable=0 failed=0 skipped=0 rescued=0 ignored=0 Open the file for editing sudo vim /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg Configuration file is place in the file /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg Configure SElinux for HAProxy to use the custom ports configured. sudo semanage port -a 6443 -t http_port_t -p tcp sudo semanage port -a 22623 -t http_port_t -p tcp sudo semanage port -a 32700 -t http_port_t -p tcp Open ports on the firewall sudo firewall-cmd --add-service=http,https --permanent sudo firewall-cmd --add-port=6443,22623/tcp --permanent sudo firewall-cmd --reload Step 7: Install OpenShift installer and CLI binaryon Bastion / Helper node Download and install the OpenShift installer and client OpenShift Client binary: # Linux wget https://mirror.openshift.com/pub/openshift-v4/clients/ocp/latest/openshift-client-linux.tar.gz tar xvf openshift-client-linux.tar.gz sudo mv oc kubectl /usr/local/bin rm -f README.md LICENSE openshift-client-linux.tar.gz # macOS wget https://mirror.openshift.com/pub/openshift-v4/clients/ocp/latest/openshift-client-mac.tar.gz tar xvf openshift-client-mac.tar.gz sudo mv oc kubectl /usr/local/bin rm -f README.md LICENSE openshift-client-mac.tar.gz OpenShift installer binary: # Linux wget https://mirror.openshift.com/pub/openshift-v4/clients/ocp/latest/openshift-install-linux.tar.gz tar xvf openshift-install-linux.tar.gz

sudo mv openshift-install /usr/local/bin rm -f README.md LICENSE openshift-install-linux.tar.gz # macOS wget https://mirror.openshift.com/pub/openshift-v4/clients/ocp/latest/openshift-install-mac.tar.gz tar xvf openshift-install-mac.tar.gz sudo mv openshift-install /usr/local/bin rm -f README.md LICENSE openshift-install-mac.tar.gz Check if you can run binaries: $ openshift-install version openshift-install 4.10.18 built from commit 25b4d09c94dc4bdc0c79d8668369aeb4026b52a4 release image quay.io/openshift-release-dev/ocp-release@sha256:195de2a5ef3af1083620a62a45ea61ac1233ffa27bbce7b30609a69775aeca19 release architecture amd64 $ oc version Client Version: 4.10.18 $ kubectl version --client Client Version: version.InfoMajor:"1", Minor:"23", GitVersion:"v1.23.0", GitCommit:"878f5a8fe0d04ea70c5e5de11fa9cc7a49afb86e", GitTreeState:"clean", BuildDate:"2022-06-01T00:19:52Z", GoVersion:"go1.17.5", Compiler:"gc", Platform:"linux/amd64" Create SSH Key Pairs Now we need to create a SSH key pair to access to use later to access the CoreOS nodes ssh-keygen -t rsa -N "" -f ~/.ssh/id_rsa Step 8: Generate ignition fileson Bastion / Helper node We need to create the ignition files used for the installation of CoreOS machines Download Pull Secret We can store our pull secret in ~/.openshift directory: mkdir ~/.openshift Visit cloud.redhat.com and download your pull secret and save it under ~/.openshift/pull-secret $ vim ~/.openshift/pull-secret Create ocp4 directory mkdir -p ~/ocp4 cd ~/ We can now create OpenShift installation yaml file install-config-base.yaml: cat

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Twitch for Game Developers

How to integrate Twitch into any part of the game development lifecycle

In 2017, an average of 21 games were released per day on Steam and last year, the global games industry gross revenue was approximately $138 billion. It’s a crowded market. And as a game developer, you’re not only competing with an increasing amount of other games, but also other screens, social media, other forms of entertainment — and real life.

Differentiation is now more important than ever.

Games are Better with Twitch

Every day on average, more than 15 million visitors tune into Twitch, three million streamers go live per month, and last year, audiences enjoyed about 505 billion minutes of content.

Watching others play video games on Twitch has massively grown. For instance, in February 2019, EA released Apex Legends on Twitch without prior announcement or much traditional marketing. The game saw more than 2.5 million players within 24 hours after release, and had 25 million players by the end of its first week. The game also generated more hours watched than any other game on Twitch in its launch week.

Twitch fosters gaming communities through conversation, interaction, and giving audiences a way to directly support their favorite content creators. In 2017, they sent 16 billion chat messages and interacted with Twitch Extensions 4.9 billion times.

Twitch is changing the way games are marketed by being a truly direct interactive conduit. Game developers now have access to direct and consistent relationships with their fans through Twitch creators, who are the ambassadors of their communities.

Twitch creates a watch/play loop with viewers

By integrating with Twitch, game developers can:

Acquire new users by creating influencer campaigns, cross-promotional incentives, utilizing Twitch Prime, doing game launches for pre-orders, and more.

Create new engaging experiences for Twitch viewers and streamers by extending the gameplay and turning viewers into active participants in the game.

Retain users by creating a watch/play loop by driving players to watch your game on Twitch and incentivize viewers to go back to the game.

Help your influencers and brand monetize by selling merchandise, in-game-items, and other benefits on Twitch.

Game producers, developers, and marketing leads at game companies may know Twitch is big, that Twitch viewers watch a lot of gaming content, and that Twitch is influential in promoting games. But you might not know the best practices for integrating Twitch into games, for launching games on Twitch, or for tapping into Twitch to grow and sustain live titles.

This game developer playbook is designed to give producers, developers, and marketing leads actionable next steps to integrate Twitch into different stages of a game’s lifecycle including:

A strategy for growing hours watched and revenue on Twitch.

Ways to increase pre-orders of games.

A strategy to re-engage lapsed players and re-engage players for live services.

Ways to turn viewers on Twitch into players.

Game Phases & High-level Recommendations

Most games are built in a stage-gated process with up to eight gates, which are distilled here into three major phases:

Phase 1 — Development. This phase encompasses everything from pre-production through first production, production, and alpha. Games that are in development are usually unannounced. We recommend that games in development integrate core, foundational Twitch features to help drive and engage new users.

Phase 2 — The Road to Launch & Launch. The road to launch includes announcement and beta. Launch includes the launch event itself and the first month after launch. In the road to launch and launch, games concentrate on building a great product, generating awareness of their game, and on acquiring users. We recommend that during this phase, games work with Twitch to promote their game to acquire new users.

Phase 3 — Live Games. Twitch’s largest and most watched games are live games; nine out of 10 top titles on Twitch in 2018 were released before 2018. Twitch has a set of programs to help publishers acquire new users, re-engage lapsed users, and retain them in game.

Let’s dive into each phase.

The best time to integrate core Twitch features is when games are in active development.

At this stage, you care about:

Driving play. Build hooks to drive users to play your game after launch.

Making your game fun to watch. Keep users engaged in your game when they’re not actively playing by creating entertaining viewing experiences.

Ensuring simple implementation. Twitch makes the tools and services you need to easily integrate Twitch into your game.

Tracking measurable impact. Ensure you can track the impact of Twitch programs on core KPIs in future phases.

Use these programs to achieve your goals:

Identity

Identity is foundational for most Twitch integrations. It enables your application to take actions on behalf of a Twitch account or access certain data about a user’s account. We recommend bidirectionally integrating Twitch identity between Twitch and game publisher accounts so that you can get information, such as in-game items, from Twitch as well as post to Twitch about a user and/or game state, such as a streamer’s or viewer’s stats. Twitch supports OAuth 2.0 and OIDC (OpenID Connect).

How Twitch Identity works

Beta Campaign with Bounty Board

Recruiting streamers to promote your beta using Bounty Board drives deep engagement with influencer campaigns through dozens or hundreds of small to mid-sized communities and a streamlined self-service activation that delivers brand-safe content with unparalleled engagement from viewers. You can easily distribute betas to streamers and drive a high degree of interest during the campaign. You can also utilize Extensions to drive pre-orders of your game and offer exclusive perks for Twitch users in betas by having bonuses translate into rewards in game.

Twitch mobilized Bounty Board’s community of influencers to generate excitement during the beta of Darwin Project. The launch helped them reach an engaged audience of gamers who experienced the game together and provided valuable feedback. 113 influencers activated the Bounty, resulting in 51,000 total views and 60 percent of viewers stayed on the channel for two or more minutes. We strongly recommend Bounty Board for indie games.

Interactive Extensions

Twitch viewers love to interact with streamers and with other members of the community, particularly when they can help streamers. By creating ways for viewers and streamers to interact and starting this process when your game is in development, you can help to grow your game’s audience at launch and know how to re-engage them later on.

The Darwin Project built an Extension that helped streamers play in Show Director mode and have viewers affect the game by helping or hindering the streamer. It’s a prime example of how an interactive Extension can include the viewers, which makes it more fun to watch and can help grow a strong community for your game on Twitch.

Darwin Project Interactive Extension

Drops

Drops allows game developers to offer special offers, content, or in-game items to Twitch viewers who watch your games. Drops convert viewers into players, because viewers get in-game items that are only worth anything if they play the game; they need to play to derive benefit from it. Dozens of game developers have used Drops to improve player retention and spend.

How Twitch Drops work

Mods

Twitch enables you to promote discovery of your game’s mods through the Twitch desktop app — where you can also manage them — and to drive additional discovery with a mod manager Extension on Twitch; the Extension allows a streamer to show off what mods they are playing to their community and then enables people to download and play the mod with their favorite streamer. Twitch also supports mod developers through a rewards program. Other developers are building free content for your game, which helps with organic retention and acquisition.

Blessing and Curses is a mod for Stardew Valley that adds a random chance to gain a random buff or debuff every x amount of days. If a streamer connects their Twitch account and channel name, Chat can choose from three randomly shown buff or debuff options. By using Twitch as a focus, the mod gives viewers a way to interact and affect game play on a whole new level.

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Development Phase Pro tips!

Streamer Mode. We recommend enabling streamers to self-identify in game through a setting and allowing them to hide sensitive UI elements. For example, prominent streamers can get hundreds of friend requests and invites per hour, and enabling a Streamer Mode can make it easier for them to play.

Streamer User Testing. We recommend user testing your game with streamers on Twitch regularly throughout development.

Things to think about

When you’re in the Development stage of your game, think about:

Implementing Twitch Identity to integrate your game with Twitch.

Harnessing Bounty Board for beta campaigns, doing Drops campaigns, and embracing mods to make your game more fun to watch, which can help turn viewers into players.

Engaging with streamers when your game is in active development and building a campaign with on-Twitch beats from announcement through launch will help you maximize promotion efforts and ultimately, drive more interest in your game.

At this stage, you care about:

Awareness. Drive awareness of your game among Twitch’s 28 million monthly active gamers.

Consideration. Qualify users by motivating them to link their Twitch account with their publisher account.

Pre-orders. Drive future sales for your game.

Acquisition. Recruit more players for your game.

Use these programs to achieve your goals:

Interactive Announce Campaign with Extensions

The best way to announce a new title on Twitch is to drive traffic to your official channel, create some type of interactivity to build hype while users wait for your official announcement, and then share your official announcement. By asking viewers to link their accounts during the campaign, you can capture emails to re-engage the interested audience.

Bethesda’s “Tablet” Extension for Elder Scrolls Online: Elsweyr turned viewers into active participants in its reveal. The Extension unlocked the announcement with viewer interaction; 511,000 unique viewers watched the stream on the trailer launch day. There was an additional Extension that incentivized viewer participation with in-game and IRL prizes as well as the ability to pre-order the game.

Broadcast with Extensions at Major Trade Shows

E3 is generally the largest week on Twitch. In 2018, people watched over 800 million minutes of E3 content. The total viewership of E3 content year over year increased 71 percent and unique views 81 percent. Twitch also often sees hundreds of thousands of viewers for Blizzcon and other publisher-specific trade events. We recommend showing your pre-show, show, and post-show on your official channel and also making it available for co-streaming to amplify the impact.

During E3 last year, Bethesda created their own Extension, which asked viewers to link their ESO and Bethesda.net accounts to enhance the viewing experience of their Showcase — complete with trivia, polls, and an opportunity to get free items. This encouraged viewers to not only watch, but also interact with the stream and amplified coverage of announcements well beyond the audience at E3.

Launch Campaign with Bounty Board

You only get to launch a game once, so pulling all the levers is critical. You can use Bounty Board to recruit streamers and run interactive ads on Twitch to maximize lift during your game’s launch window. You can also use Extensions on your official channel to drive sales.

Twitch Advertising

Advertising on Twitch isn’t static. It isn’t one-way. We offer standard IAB display and video media as well as native opportunities. Custom executions are also available. Twitch Ads reach a highly engaged audience of mostly males between the ages of 18 and 34. More than 15 million are unique daily visitors and account for two million peak concurrent users site wide.

Apex Legends used ads on Twitch to promote the upcoming launch, which helped result in 25 million unique users in a week.

Drops

Drops allows game developers to offer special offers, content, or in-game items to Twitch viewers who watch your games. Drops convert viewers into players, because viewers get in-game items that are only worth anything if they play the game; they need to be a player to derive benefit from it. Dozens of game developers have used Drops to improve player retention and spend.

Rainbow Six Siege ran a Drops re-engagement campaign with new character skins and charms as a way to retain players.

Mods

Allowing other developers to build content for your game helps with organic retention during launch.

Road to Launch and Launch pro tips!

Account link. Remember that you can ask viewers to link their accounts during these campaigns, so you can capture email and re-engage the qualified audience.

Developer streams. Twitch users love to hear from devs. We recommend regularly updating gamers about upcoming releases and beta campaigns. You can amplify your impact by inviting Twitch streamers into your studios to play games and costream these updates. Paradox Interactive, for instance, regularly broadcasts updates — to approximately 50,000 concurrent viewers — about new releases and new features followed by experts and streamers playing the games and answering questions from their community.

Things to think about

In your Road to Launch and Launch phase, think about:

Registering your game on Twitch to make your game discoverable and to get access to more Twitch tools like the Twitch API, Drops, Insights and Analytics, and Extension development.

Using Bounty Board, various campaigns with Extensions, and Ads to build buzz with streamers and viewers and get people excited to play your game.

Trying Drops, Mods, and Extensions to retain users with new, unique experiences found only on Twitch.

Twitch helps games acquire new users and engage existing players. The strongest live games drive a loop between Twitch and the game, encouraging players to watch on Twitch and Twitch encouraging users to buy and play the game.

At this stage, you care about:

Acquiring new users. Get new users into your game.

Engaging and retaining active users. Increase daily and monthly active users (DAU and MAU) by converting Twitch viewers into players.

Re-engaging lapsed users. Get ex-players to play your game again.

Use these programs to achieve your goals:

Mods

Open sourcing your game and letting other developers create new content for your games can help with organic acquisition after your game is live.

Minecraft is almost synonymous with modding. There are a total of 55,263 Minecraft mods made discoverable on Twitch with over 4.7 million users and over 7 billion mod downloads. These mods give viewers near-constant new ways to play and watch the game, keeping it popular — even a decade after its launch.

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Drops

Drops allows game developers to offer special offers, content, or in-game items to Twitch viewers who watch your games. Drops convert viewers into players. Dozens of game developers have used Drops to improve player retention and spend as well as acquire new players. Twitch also likely has more of your lapsed users than you do and can contact them better, so by using Drops, you can drive these users back into your title.

Warframe created tens of thousands of new spenders in game and reinvigorated a lapsed user base using a Drops campaign run on Twitch. 41% of the people who participated in the campaign had never spent and 20% of them spent about $10 on average.

Bounty Board

After your game is released, you can use Bounty Board to recruit streamers to promote your game, which drives deep engagement with dozens or hundreds of small to mid-sized communities through a streamlined self-service activation that delivers brand-safe content with unparalleled engagement from viewers.

The Grand Tour ran a Bounty Board campaign after the game was released to drive more acquisition. 89 broadcasters took part, which resulted in 93,000 total views and 55,000 unique viewers, 59% of whom watched the game for more than two minutes.

Twitch Prime

Twitch Prime provides in-game items, downloadable games, Amazon.com discounts, Twitch community perks and much more. Twitch Prime is one of the fastest growing Amazon Prime benefits focused on supporting games and gamers for over 100 million worldwide Prime members. Game partners benefit from our service through support of new player acquisition, increased awareness on Amazon and Twitch audiences.

In a 60-day period, a major game studio saw a 20% increase in session days and a 93% increase in average revenue per user (ARPU), which resulted in $10 million estimated incremental revenue — all through a single Twitch Prime campaign.

Engagement Extensions

Extensions are apps for Twitch. They can be used after a game has been launched to create new experiences on top of the game — such as polls, predictions, trivia, etc. — to aid in acquisition and re-engage lapsed players.

Built with the goal of driving viewer engagement for the FIFA eWorld Cup tournament, FIFA built an Extension that allowed viewers to predict match outcomes in real-time, with live accuracy scoring and the chance for the most accurate teams to win in-game rewards via account-linking. This created a new engagement opportunity for streamers and viewers to reconnect to the game.

How Twitch Extensions work

Interactive Extensions and Integrations

Unlike engagement Extensions that are built on top of the viewing experience, interactive Extensions and Integrations are part of the game and allow developers to create unique ways for streamers, viewers, and games to interact. Extensions and integrations can build a community that loves watching and playing your game. Creating an Extension that allows viewers to support streamers through Bits or Cheers while they’re playing is a win-win for both audiences.

Motion Twin’s Dead Cells launch was built entirely around a Twitch strategy. An integration that allows viewers to control game play through Twitch Chat was a core part of their “second” launch, where they used the integration as a way to re-engage streamers and viewers. This allowed them to reach a huge audience during the second launch week. They essentially doubled all-time minutes watched count in a month. Since then, the game has seen a baseline pickup in the amount of people continuing to stream the game after an initial playthrough and the base audience numbers have gone up.

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Twitch is the most popular site for esports and can help increase viewership and convert viewers to players.

Incentivized Viewing

We recommend incentivizing viewers to predict who will win active esports events. We’ve seen in trials during major esports events that this can drive 60% of Twitch viewers to interact and hundreds of thousands of Twitch viewers back into game.

Twitch and PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) worked together to let PUBG Global Invitational viewers vote via a Twitch Extension on who would win each round of the world finals of the event. More than one million people tuned into the world finals, more than 70 percent interacted with the Extension, and they won more than 350,000 crates of in-game items.

Twitch Rivals

Twitch Rivals is an exclusive esports series designed from the ground up for Twitch streamers and viewers. This season will include over 100 events featuring new formats, games, interactive Extensions, and millions of dollars in prize money.

EA saw 2.5 million hours watched during their Apex Legends Rivals event on February 12, which helped contribute to the game’s overall 7 million hours watched on that single day.

Interactive Viewing

If you have an existing esport, we recommend creating an interactive Extension to allow the viewer to change perspectives, to get real-time stats for participants, and to get build guides and other information.

Global Offensive FACEIT Majors, StatsHelix exposed internal game data to power new experiences for the tournament viewers, and using Genvid’s data capture and web APIs made those interactive and synchronized to the Twitch video frame. Some of the features — including a customized UI, which allowed viewers to change the weapon’s crosshair view, the ability to call the scoreboard at any point in the game, and a live-updating minimap that showed a more detailed view of the main map, including player positions — demonstrated the pent up demand for viewers to be a part of the game rather than simply watching a game.

Live Games Phase pro tips!

Developer streams. Twitch users love to hear from devs. We recommend regularly updating gamers about new features and programs in your live games. You can amplify your impact by inviting Twitch streamers into your studios to play games and costream these updates.

Insights and Analytics: Quarterly Insights. Review your insights quarterly to understand overall viewership and broadcast metrics for each of your games listed on Twitch. In addition to viewership, you will see relevant data that can help you grow your game audience by investing in the right broadcasters with the right Twitch products. For instance, Quarterly Twitch Insights provide developers a view of broadcasters who are trending on a game title, how active a community is during the streams, what other content the community is watching, game growth by geography, and opportunities to engage streamers through Twitch services like Bounty Board.

Things to think about

In the Live Game phase, think about:

Using Extensions, Drops, and Twitch Prime to attract new streamers and viewers and reward those who already play your game to keep them coming back for more.

Setting up esports events with Extensions that incentivize and engage viewers to make your game more fun to watch.

Now what?

The growth of the Twitch community has opened up fresh avenues for game developers to attract new players, reengage lapsed players, and create communities that love watching and interacting with games.

By harness the dynamic between player, creator, and game, developers can make games that people play, watch, pay for, and play again.

Twitch tries to make this even easier by giving you the tools and strategies to be successful.

With this playbook, we hope that you now have:

A strategy for growing hours watched and revenue on Twitch with Extensions, Bounty Board, and Twitch Prime.

Steps to increase pre-orders of games through beta campaigns, launch campaigns complete with major trade show announcements, and interactive announce Extensions.

A strategy to re-engage lapsed players with Twitch Prime, Extensions, Drops, and esports events.

Ways to turn viewers on Twitch into payers using Extensions, Drops, and Twitch Prime.

Besides the recommended programs at whichever stage you are in your development cycle, there are a few things you can do now to see the benefits of Twitch integration immediately:

Get even more examples and information in our full Game Developer Playbook: bit.ly/TwitchGameDevPlaybook

Register your game on Twitch. This will allow you to set up campaigns, control box art, and utilize Twitch Insights and Analytics for your games.

Visit the dev.twitch.tv site for documentation and how-to guides.

Ready to build interactive experiences on Twitch? Start now!

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The U.S. Navy Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) is currently exploring the blockchain technology for tracking aviation parts throughout its lifecycle, according to its press release.

For NAVAIR, changing the way it currently tracks the lineage of parts is a critical step into reducing the high costs it takes to operate a military aircraft. The current process involves writing down details of the parts on a Scheduled Removal Component Card—used for recording aviation parts information— before manually entering it into a database.

The Navy has partnered with Indiana Technology and Manufacturing Companies (ITAMCO) under the Cooperative Research and Development Agreement, NAVAIR hopes to get “access to cutting-edge chain code” as well as innovative protocols that can “recall large data sets” swiftly and securely.

ITAMCO developed SIMBA Chain, a blockchain as a service platform which allows for tracking secure messages using blockchain for the United States military.

According to the press release, ITAMCO will help the Navy understand how to leverage the distributed ledger for its operations and in return, the startup will get to understand how the Navy operates so it can create a “conceptual architecture” for what a “connected and visible supply chain” could look like when fully developed.

Developing such a platform for the NAVY will not be easy, and one of the hurdles that have to be scaled through is “information assurance and accreditation” for a distributed information system which will depart from the current centrally controlled database architecture. There is also the issue of cyber-security, as the connection of all the nodes supporting the supply chain increases the vulnerability of the system. NAVAIR is bringing the experts in early to create a conceptual architecture, as it hopes to understand the risks and reward that comes with a connected distributed system.

Navy’s Fleet Support Team believes the blockchain can help the Naval Air mission focus more on safety and at a lower cost than it currently can with the old system.

George Blackwood, Logistics Management Specialist F/A-18A-E & EA-18G ISSC North Island Fleet Support Team, was ecstatic about the partnership. He said:

“The Navy is very excited to work with ITAMCO on this cutting-edge technology to improve visibility, anti-tampering, traceability and data transparency in the NAVAIR supply chain.”

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Windows 10 S And The Surface Laptop Are Bad News For Gamers

The Floor every dayComputer debuted Tuesday day-to-day a great deal fanfare and Apple comparison portions. It’s Microsoft’s answer every day the MacBook, and if you care at all about gambling video games on your day-to-day, It’s decidedly not for you.

Home windows 10 S every day take the steam out of Steam.

The number one motive the Floor every day is bad for gamers is the fact that it is the flagship every day for Home windows 10 S. Microsoft’s latest running device abandons all pretense of openness in want of closed surroundings. On Windows 10 S computers, handiest apps from Microsoft’s app save will run. All other software program is closed out of this new walled garden. Microsoft isn’t always simply taking intention on the MacBook line with the Floor Lapdayeveryday, It is taking a page from Apple’s App save fulfillment.

Drastically absent from the Microsoft store? Steam, the primary destination for every day everyday gamers. This is wherein almost each daily gamer goes daily and play games (although Mac and Linux users can also use Steam.) Additionally lacking from the Microsoft keep are EA’s Starting place, GOG Galaxy and Ubisoft’s Uplay. Basically, all the non-Microsoft online game SDA lyre fronts have zero presence on Home windows 10 S. Until Valve and the rest of those recreation businesses determine to present Microsoft a reduce of all their earnings, they might not be offering versions of their services any time quickly, both.

The Floor day-to-day is not a terrific choice for gaming.

Beyond the travesty of an operating device, the Floor everyday itself is without a doubt not a super everyday choice for gaming, even in case you best want every day to play video games you can discover at the Microsoft store. For $999 you may find plenty of different lap daily ps with better graphical oomph.

Windows 10: Better, Stronger, Faster?

Microsoft made a large splash with its launch of Home windows 10 on July 29, 2015. For plenty Pc users, switching to the new OS is 7c5d89b5be9179482b8568d00a9357b2, at the same time as for others, it’s a near call. If you have not decided whether or not your enterprise is ready to make the switch, right here’s a better observe Home windows 10 to help you determine if the new OS is simply better, more potent, and quicker.

Value

Upgrade to Windows 10 totally free! customers with Home windows 7, Home windows 8.1, and Windows Smartphone 8.1 can acquire the brand new OS freed from rate till July 29, 2016. Home windows 10 is free for the lifetime of the device, meaning aid and updates at no price as long as Microsoft supports the operating gadget.

Home windows Vista, XP, 7 Organization, 8/8.1 Company and RT/RT eight.1 are excluded from this free provide. Those OS’s require a charge of $119 according to Home license or $199 per Pro license to Improve to Home windows 10. But, if you have Software program Warranty with this type of OS’s, then your Upgrade is free.

Assist

Windows 7 and Windows eight are approaching the end of guide quicker than we would want to think. By using upgrading to Windows 10, you benefit years of extra mainstream and extended support. Here’s a contrast of the running machine support lifecycles for Windows 10 vs. Home windows eight vs. Windows 7:

operating system end of Mainstream assist quit of extended help

Home windows 7 January thirteen, 2015 January 14, 2020

Windows eight January 9, 2018, January 10, 2023 Windows 10 October 13, 2020, October 14, 2025

Windows 10 brings introduced years of mainstream and extended help. quit of mainstream help way that Microsoft will not beautify the product, but there’ll still be a paid for protection and reliability issues. stop of prolonged help nevertheless affords security and reliability aid; But, this marks the cease of assist for non-safety hotfixes, requests for brand new features and designs, and warranty claims.

The query is what is going to you do whilst your OS assist involves a quit in the following few years? If you’re an eligible candidate for a unfastened Improve to Home windows 10, it may be worthwhile to Upgrade earlier than the offer expires.

Speed

Is Home windows 10 faster? TechSpot positioned Windows 10 to the test towards Home windows 8.1 and Windows 7 for Pace overall performance. the brand new OS ranked within mere seconds of Home windows 8.1 and Windows 7 for Speed in all overall performance regions. Here is a brief examine the difference you will be able to experience on a day by day basis with wake up and boot instances:

working machine Hibernation wake up Hybrid Sleep wake up Boot Time

Home windows 7 27 seconds 17 seconds five seconds

Home windows 8.1 23 seconds 12 seconds 4 seconds Windows 10 21 seconds 10 seconds 6 seconds

Much like awaken and boost Speed, it is a close name for Windows 10 towards Windows 7 and Windows eight.1 in utility, storage, and gaming performance. Home windows 10 would not have a clear win over beyond ora in phrases of Pace in any particular class.

Choosing the Best Laptop Stand for the Home or Office

A PC stand is a beneficial accent to raise the height of the laptop to an extra favorable integrated role. But, it’s miles vital to buy the proper built-in stand to healthy the built-in use. it’s miles specially cut up integrated three differ built integrated: extremely-light, transportable and built-in device integrated.

Ultra-mild

The extremely light stand is a practical desire for the small notebook and laptops and built for the on-the-move experts. The lightweight construct means they may be very smooth to carry and collapse integrated flat or integrated a completely small bundle.

Portable

The portable stand is beneficial for the ones people that wish to every so often alternate their work Vic built integrated. Most have adjustable functions to built-integrated the secure ergonomic posture. they are compact enough for the PC bag, But barely bigger and heavier than the ultra-mild units.

Comput built integrated

The built-in stands are built-inbuilt integrated for the built-in built-installation to offer the Maximum cozy work built integrated role. They appearance the Most elegant and made integrated materials like wood and metal. Plus, with no need to be transportable, these stands can characteristic extras like USB hubs, record holders, or cool integrated fans.

Different issues integrated:

Height adjust integrated

The capability to modify the peak of the PC stand is sensible for a ramification of motives. A primary purpose to built-in the PC on the proper Top is to create an at ease built-in position. This may notably assist to lower the risk the neck, wrist, and back integrated.

Included paper holder

An Included paper holder is a useful feature for the employee that regularly references Other material whilst built-in. it’s far normally positioned built-built-in with the PC display screen for greater comfort and allows to reduce neck motion.

USB Hub

A function this is built-in built integrated greater general is the Incorporated USB hub, that is practical for those laptops that have a constrabuiltintegrated number of ports. Most of those hubs are easily powered via connecting integrated to the laptop.

Swivel base

A swivel base is a flexible feature and useful integrated a diffusion of conditions. built-instance, it is able to help with patron displays, built-in, and collaborative built-in integrated.

Coins for Gamers Are Now Easily Available Online

The gaming coin has undergone many modifications over the decades. Previously the digital cash had been just a shape of wide variety won as factors at the a hit completion of every gaming stage. With the passage of time and technological advancements, the coins have grew to become out as one of the indispensable way of gaming accessory which happens in change of real global cash.

What Brings on the exchange?

To understand the impact the coins has managed to introduce by way of influencing the gamers, one viable clarification is the way the gaming consoles have changed and that is wherein gamers indulge in gambling video games that are as a substitute the direct emulation of the surrounding actual world. The high-give up pix offers the appearance and sense to the games along with fuelling the need to acquire.

The obtaining in terms of gaming occurs to take region more in sports-centric video games. To shop for MUT cash can be one example that triggers of gaming activities which include switch of players between teams, buying clothing and add-ons for the group’s gamers and many others. The web gaming coins is available for gamers with their real world cash consisting of debit or credit score playing cards.

The Dealers

The coin Dealers are greater in desire by means of gamers if they take place to stock up coins of every viable denomination beneath one roof. The coin Dealers that has controlled to construct huge reputation in relation to the promoting of gaming cash is already in enterprise for a couple of years now. Those Dealers once they began used to serve to a single person based market. Later on, the Dealers befell to grow and accelerated, stocking up cash to trap customers in settling for and shopping for MUT coins along with every other possible gaming coin from coin developers. The shops or Dealers as a result earning the call of being a one prevent shop.

The stores have already earned repute till the date of serving clients in excess of heaps. The motive of some shops being optimum over others by way of customers is;

• Cheap and the very high-quality possible charges of coins. Sellers also take in the project of making the cash to be had at inexpensive rates in strains to that of their competition if found.

• The fast processing of orders that too as orders stuffed inside five-60 mins.

• Reliable approach of transport. every order meets the clients by way of very plenty adhering to the enterprise’s policy of delivery.

Such measures have helped the agencies develop a steady consumer base.

Rajib Saha is an creator of repute and has thus far penned many articles on the changing gaming industry and the gamer’s desires like To shop for MUT cash. These articles have managed to earn rave opinions in main technology and digital journals.

Originally posted 2016-08-28 03:25:48.

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