Kubernetes

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)(…)

K8s on Windows/VirtualBox

By Franck Pachot . This is a little demo, easy to copy-paste, if you want to play with Kubernetes on your laptop. And, not a simple “Hello World” but a real database running here, able to scale up and(…)

Deploying a Kubernetes cluster on EC2 with Rancher

Once Rancher is up and running, it makes the deployment and management of Kubernetes clusters quite easy. In this post we'll deploy a brand new cluster on top of EC2. If you want to have a simple(…)

Rancher on SLES 15 as a demo environment

If you followed the last posts (Rancher, up and running, on EC2 – 1 – One node, Rancher, up and running, on EC2 – 2 – Three nodes and Rancher,(…)

Rancher, up and running, on EC2 – 3 – Rancher setup

The is the next post in this little Rancher series. After we installed a single node RKE cluster and extended this configurtation to three nodes we will finally install Rancher in this post.

Rancher, up and running, on EC2 – 2 – Three nodes

In the last post we've brought up a RKE Kubernetes cluster on a single node. While that is cool for demonstration purposes or testing, this is nothing for a real life setup. Running the control pane, the(…)