DevOps

Create a Kubernetes cluster with Google Kubernetes Engine

Nowadays the market for cloud providers is very competitive. Large companies are fighting a very hard battle over the services they provide. Each offers a wide range of more or less identical products with specific features for each. In my(…)

Provisioning a AKS cluster and KubeInvaders with Terraform

Provisioning a K8s infrastructure may be performed in different ways. Terraform has a connector called the Kubernetes provider but it doesn’t allow building and deploying a Kubernetes cluster. The cluster must be up and running before using the provider.

Kubernetes DNS resolution using CoreDNS (force update deployment)

After installing your Kubernetes cluster composed by masters and workers, a few configurations steps need to complete. In fact, the join command is not the last operation to perform, in order to have a fully operational cluster. See how(…)

Using non-root SQL Server containers on Docker and K8s

This is something that I waited for a while, in fact since SQL Server 2017 … and the news came out on Wednesday 09th September 2019. Running(…)

OpenShift 4.1 Partner Introduction Day

By Mouhamadou Diaw Today was the OpenShift Partner Introduction Day by RedHat. This event happened at Lausanne There were people with different backgrounds. After presenting the RedHat compagny, the speaker explained what is Openshifts and why people must adopt(…)

How to get a big picture of K8s pods and PVs by script

A couple of weeks ago, during an internal dbi services workshop about Docker and K8s, I got an interesting question: is it possible to get a big picture of pods connected to one specific persistent volume(…)

SQL Server 2019: Java in SQL Server hard to believe, no?

It has already been a few months that we are testing the next version of SQL Server: SQL Server 2019. I already blogged about a previous version of SQL Server supporting R and Python. With the new version(…)

Windows Docker containers, when platform matters

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.

CloudBees DevOps Playground – Hands On with JenkinsX

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(…)

Deploying SQL Server 2019 container on RHEL 8 with podman

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(…)