DevOps

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(…)

Kubernetes – How to install a single master cluster with kubeadm?

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(…)

Microsoft Inspire Partner Event 2019 / Day 1

dbi services at Microsoft Inspire Conference Summary of my first participation – Day 1 After 20 years in the business of IT Infrastructure, time has come to open my mind 😉 and Microsoft Inspire is the perfect opportunity. It is(…)

SQL Server containers and docker network driver performance considerations

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(…)

Deploying SQL Server on Azure virtual machine with Terraform

We are entering now to the infrastructure as code world and provisioning a SQL Server infrastructure is not excluded from the equation. This is especially true when it comes the Cloud regardless we are using IaaS or PaaS. One(…)

Windocks and K8s support

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(…)

Windocks, SQL Server and Azure in our internal CI pipeline

During the last DevOps Day in Geneva, I presented a sample of our CI implementation related to our MSSQL DMK maintenance product(…)

Upgrading SQL Server pods on K8s and helm charts

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(…)