Kubernetes

Installing MySQL InnoDB Cluster in OKE using a MySQL Operator

During previous months, I've had some time to satisfy my curiosity about databases in containers and I started to test a little bit MySQL in Kubernetes. This is how it all began...

Do you know Rancher Desktop?

Today I stumbled across Rancher Desktop and thought I'll give it a try. If blogged about Rancher in the past but all those blogs talked about the full blown Rancher project. Rancher Desktop brings(…)

Managing Ansible with AWX – Part I – Installation on Minikube

AWX is a web based GUI tool for managing Ansible playbooks. It is the open source upstream project of Red Hat Automation Controller (formerly Ansible Tower) . As for Fedora and RHEL operating systems, the releases of(…)

dbi services at AWS re:Invent 2021 : day 2

For my day 1 recap, please jump here. For the second day of that conference, I decided first to attend the keynote of Adam Selipsky, CEO of Amazon Web Services. Lots of annoucements as always covering various area and(…)

Kubernetes : two different OCI runtimes

Quick recap : in the previous episode, we have seen how to move from a Kubernetes cluster powered by Docker into a future-proof Kubernetes cluster, using containerd. Now let’s move on and fully enjoy the power of having(…)

Deploy a Kubernetes cluster using Ansible in AWS

After more than 2 years of experience in Kubernetes cluster administration, I am deeply convinced that one of the most important things to have as an ops guy is a sandbox cluster at your disposal. This can be either a(…)

Kubernetes : from Docker to containerd

Kubernetes is very popular and well-known open-source orchestration platform for containers. Very dynamic ecosystem, the release cycle is also very fast. Six months passed since the K8s team announced the dockershim will be deprecated and the 1.22 release deadline(…)

See you on Polywork (an new LinkedIn?)

By Franck Pachot . I have published 105 additional blog posts here since the 500th one https://www.dbi-services.com/blog/rollback-to-savepoint/ that I have written on my come back to dbi-services. On Oracle Database, of course, other databases as well,(…)

Rancher installation on RHEL 8 compatible Linux

This Blog is about the installation of Rancher Community on a RHEL 8 compatible Linux, for this Blog i choose AlmaLinux 8.4, but i will also work on Rocky Linux 8.4 Release Candidate. Base is an AlmaLinux / Rocky(…)

El Carro: The Oracle Operator for Kubernetes

By Franck Pachot . Google Cloud, Open Source and Oracle Databases… what seems to be a paradox is possible, thanks to cloud providers who contribute to open infrastructure. The idea is to use Operators (custom resource controllers on Kubernetes)(…)