Daniel Westermann

Rancher, up and running, on EC2 – 3 – Rancher setup

The is the next post in this little Rancher series. After we installed a single node RKE cluster and extended this configurtation to three nodes we will finally install Rancher in this post.

Rancher, up and running, on EC2 – 2 – Three nodes

In the last post we've brought up a RKE Kubernetes cluster on a single node. While that is cool for demonstration purposes or testing, this is nothing for a real life setup. Running the control pane, the(…)

Rancher, up and running, on EC2 – 1 – One node

If you want to play with Rancher you have several options, as outlined in the documentation. There are quick starts for the major public cloud providers (using Terraform), you can install(…)

Be careful with prepared transactions in PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL gives you the possibility for two-phase commit. You'll might need that if you want an atomic distributed commit. If you check the PostgreSQL documentation there is a clear warning about using these kind(…)

[Data]nymizer – Data anonymizer for PostgreSQL

Often there is the requirement to populate a test or development database with data from production, but this comes with a risk: Do you really want, that developers or testers have access to sensitive data? In a lot of companies(…)

8000 PostgreSQL clusters on one host?

Coming back to the last post: 8000 databases in one PostgreSQL cluster?. As we've seen this is doable but comes with a lot of pain points. Another solution for this kind of requirement would be to host(…)

PostgreSQL on FreeBSD, installation from source code

This is the next post in this little series about PostgreSQL on FreeBSD. You can find the previous one here: PostgreSQL on FreeBSD, getting started PostgreSQL on FreeBSD, updating & configuration(…)

PostgreSQL on FreeBSD, installation from packages

In the last two posts we installed FreeBSD, configured networking, updated the system, installed bash and had a quick look at kernel parameters. In this post we'll install PostgreSQL from packages. Of course you(…)

PostgreSQL on FreeBSD, updating & configuration

In the last post we installed FreeBSD, configured the keyboard, time zone and the first network interface, which gets it's IP address via DHCP. In this post we'll look at how we can configure the second interface,(…)

PostgreSQL on FreeBSD, getting started

Although we are running PostgreSQL mostly on Linux distributions, you can install an run PostgreSQL on a lot of other operating systems. On of them is FreeBSD. FreeBSD is one of those Unixes that derived from the(…)