Databases and application servers in Docker containers: building images, Docker Compose, networking, volumes and what to consider before running stateful workloads in containers.
A couple of days ago, I got a question from a customer about an issue he ran into when trying to spin up a container on Windows. The context was as follows: > docker container run hello-world:nanoserver Unable to find image ‘hello-world:nanoserver’ locally nanoserver: Pulling from library/hello-world C:\Program Files\Docker\docker.exe: no matching manifest for windows/amd64 10.0.14393 in the manifest list entries.…
Last week, we had the chance to attend to the CloudBees DevOps Playground in London. The event was a presentation and a Hands-On on Jenkins X done by one of the most popular guys from the CloudBees, Gareth Evans. Before taking an interest in Jenkins X, we focused most of our time in the Docker and Kubernetes part. We enhance…
Having a fresh install of RHEL8 on my lab environment, I was curious to take a look at new containerization stuff from Red Hat in the context of SQL Server 2019. Good chances are the future version of SQL Server should be available and supported on with the latest version of Red Hat but for now this blog post is…
To bootstrap a minimal K8S cluster for testing purpose, kubeadm is a very interesting tool. The goal of this blog is not to explain to you the K8S architecture or the components but only the deployment part. using kubeadm. The final architecture of our cluster will be the following: Source:https://elastisys.com/2018/01/25/setting-highly-available-kubernetes-clusters/ Docker Installation The first step is to install Docker on…
Few months ago I attended to the Franck Pachot session about Microservices and databases at SOUG Romandie in Lausanne on 2019 May 21th. He covered some performance challenges that can be introduced by Microservices architecture design and especially when database components come into the game with chatty applications. One year ago, I was in a situation where a customer installed…
I got recently the 4.08 update from the Windocks team and I was very excited to evaluate some of new features. The first cool one I want to present in this blog concerns the Kubernetes support for deploying Windocks containers that will make my application deployment definitely easier. Let’s say you want to deploy your application that is tied to…
During the last DevOps Day in Geneva, I presented a sample of our CI implementation related to our MSSQL DMK maintenance product. It was definitely a very good experience for me and good opportunity to get feedback from DevOps community as well. During the session I explained our CI pipeline includes SQL Server containers both on AKS (K8s as managed…
It has been while since my last blog. Today it is about continuing with helm charts and how to upgrade / downgrade SQL Server containers to a specific cumulative update. My first write-up in my to-do list. Last year, I wrote an introduction of SQL Server containers on K8s. I remembered to face some issues when testing upgrade scenarios (probably…
Docker EE 2.1 is a Containers-as-a-Service (CaaS) platform on-premise or in the cloud. To manage your cluster of containers, Docker EE allows you to install UCP (Universal Control Panel). When you plan to install the UCP 3.1.2 in Azure, the installation fails during the deployment of the UCP service. You will get the following error message. [docker@docker-manager000 ~]$ docker logs…
This write-up follows my first article about helm chart with SQL Server. This time, I would like to cover the availability groups topic and how to deploy them with helm charts. In fact, to go through this feature for AGs was motivated to its usage in our Azure DevOps CI pipeline in order to deploy a configurable one on an…
During the last DockerCon EU in Barcelona, I heard a lot about Helm with K8s architectures. It was also a good opportunity to write about it after attending to this conference. In a nutshell, Helm is a package manager for K8s and you may think of it like the other ones available on the Linux side with apt, yum or zypper to…
In short, a very interesting event for both Devs and Ops. Every day was organized around workshops, hands-on-labs sessions and Hallway tracks. My colleague Mehdi Bada and I tried to attend as much sessions as possible but obviously it was difficult to cover all the topics. Anyway, workshops and hands-on-labs were very interesting especially if you like to mix theory…
