FOSS4G Europe is an annual event of free and open source geographic technologies and open geospatial data hosted by OSGeo. In 2025 it took place in Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina. Sourcepole attended this event the second time after 2015 in Como.

The QGIS Cloud Support team regularly receives inquiries describing errors when uploading data to the database from the QGIS Cloud plugin. In this short blog article, I would like to explain the cause of this problem and provide some tips for analysis.

Given a 3rd party Debian package repository such as apt.postgresql.org how do you make sure, that the packages respectively the services that are provided by the packages, such as a Postgresql DB server, get automatically updated?

apt-dater (package available) is a really handy tool to update Debian packages on a large fleet of servers.

You install and configure it, add your company’s hosts into it and then you can keep an eye on outstanding package updates and update the whole fleet with a few key strokes.

But can you manage company servers and separately from that your own machines with apt-dater?

How can I run my ansible playbook outside of a container and have the taks executed inside the container?