Cloud, DevOps, PostgreSQL Creating your private cloud using OpenStack – (5) – The Compute service 23.01.2025 by Daniel Westermann We’re now coming closer to the final setup of the OpenStack test environment. Again, looking at the minimum services we need, there are only three of them left: Keystone: Identity service (done)(…)
Database Administration & Monitoring, Database management PostgreSQL 18: Add OLD/NEW support to RETURNING in DML queries 22.01.2025 by Daniel Westermann While doing some research on OpenStack (see here for the introduction post), I thought blogging about a new feature for the next version of PostgreSQL might free my head a bit from(…)
Cloud, DevOps, PostgreSQL Creating your private cloud using OpenStack – (4) – The Image and Placement services 21.01.2025 by Daniel Westermann By the end of the last post we finally got the first OpenStack service up and running: Keystone, the Identity Service. Going back to the list of services we need at a(…)
Cloud, DevOps, PostgreSQL Creating your private cloud using OpenStack – (3) – Keystone, the Identity Service 20.01.2025 by Daniel Westermann By the end of the last post, we finished with preparing the controller and compute node for being ready to deploy the first OpenStack service: Keystone, the Identity Service. Before we dive into the details lets(…)
Database management, SQL Server, Security dbo vs. db_owner in SQL Server – What are the differences between them? 20.01.2025 by Roger Schönmann During the last years working with customers and teaching them in security topics, I realised that a lot of DBAs are not familiar with or aware of the differences between the two “owner” existing in SQL Server. That’s why I(…)
Cloud, DevOps, PostgreSQL Creating your private cloud using OpenStack – (2) – Preparing the nodes 17.01.2025 by Daniel Westermann In the introduction post we’ve briefly looked at some options you have available when you want to build your own private cloud. In this post we’re going to start our journey into OpenStack by preparing the(…)
Azure, Cloud, SQL Server Automate your Deployments in Azure with Terraform! 16.01.2025 by Hocine Mechara Terraform is a strong open-source declarative and platform agnostic infrastructure as code (IaC) tool developed by HashiCorp. It facilitates the deployment and whole management of infrastructure. In this hands on blog I will show you how you can use Terraform(…)
Cloud, DevOps, PostgreSQL Creating your private cloud using OpenStack – (1) – Introduction 16.01.2025 by Daniel Westermann While public clouds are a trend since several years now, some companies are also looking into self hosted solutions to build a private cloud. Some do this because of costs, others do this because they don’t want to be dependent(…)
YaK Introducing YaK 2.0: The future of effortless PaaS deployments across Clouds and On-Premises 15.01.2025 by Rémy Gaudey Hello, dear tech enthusiasts and cloud aficionados! We’ve got some news that’s about to make your life —or your deployments, at least— a whole lot easier. Meet YaK 2.0, the latest game-changer in the world of automated multi-cloud PaaS deployment.
Oracle New Oracle Database Appliance X11 series for 2025 14.01.2025 by Jérôme Dubar Introduction Oracle Database Appliance X10 is not so old, but X11 is already out, available to order. Let’s find out what’s new for this 2025 series. What is an Oracle Database Appliance? ODA, or Oracle Database Appliance, is an engineered(…)