Docker

DevOps World – Jenkins World – The Workshop On Day One

After achieving new challenges during customer activities where I was managing a quite huge project around Kubernetes & Jenkins X EcoSystem, I get the opportunity to attend the DevOps World – Jenkins World in Lisbon.A big thanks as I(…)

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(…)

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(…)

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(…)

Debugging SQL Server containers considerations

When it comes to troubleshooting processes or to get a deeper look of how SQL Server works internally , I always used debugging tools as windbg on Windows and since SQL Server is available on Linux, I switched to(…)

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(…)