DevOps

CloudNativePG – Scaling up and down

By now, if you followed the previous posts (here, here, here, here and here), we know quite a bit about how to use(…)

CloudNativePG – The kubectl plugin

As we’re getting more and more familiar with CloudNativePG, now it’s time to get more information about our cluster, either for monitoring or troubleshooting purposes. Getting information about the general state of our cluster can be easily done by using(…)

CloudNativePG – PostgreSQL extensions

Now that we know how we can configure the PostgreSQL instance and access control, we’re going to look at what you can do when it comes to PostgreSQL extensions with CloudNativePG. As we have a running(…)

CloudNativePG – Configuring the PostgreSQL instance

In the last post we’ve created a more detailed version of the cluster definition for CloudNativePG. This gave us a PostgreSQL cluster with enabled data checksum, the correct locale, an increased size of the WAL segments and the possibility(…)

CloudnativePG – Bootstrapping an empty cluster

In the last post we’ve created a very simple three node PostgreSQL cluster using CloudNativePG and this was really easy to do. While this is great to get started quickly, you usually want to have(…)

CloudNativePG on minicube on openSUSE Leap Micro 6

Some time ago I’ve written a small blog about how to get openSUSE Leap Micro 6 up and running. As one of the use cases for this distributions is to run container workloads, the next natural step is to(…)

Investigative look into cloud-native hyper-converged infrastructure with Harvester (2)

In this second blog, we will see how we can deploy a Microsoft Windows Server 2022 virtual machine on Harvester, and play a little bit with scheduling.

Using WebHooks with GitLab to launch external tools

by Alexandre Nestor Introduction WebHooks are HTTP callbacks that are triggered by events. In case of GitlLab these can be events like pushing some code, or creating an issue, or pushing some comments, create a merge request and so on.

Detect XZ Utils CVE 2024-3094 with Tetragon

How to use Tetragon to detect XZ Utils backdoor CVE 2024-3094 before it was known. Apply the Zero Trust security strategy.

Investigative look into cloud-native hyper-converged infrastructure with Harvester

In this first blog, we will have a look on what is Harvester, cloud native hyper-converged infrastructure, it's concepts and the installation.