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How to scale up a Patroni cluster

During the preparation of my presentation for the pgconf.eu I ran into one big issue. I had to stop my cluster to add a new node. That was not the way I wanted to archive this. I want a high(…)

Galera Cluster 4 with MariaDB 10.4.8

Last month, by a new customer I had to install the latest version of the MariaDB server: 10.4.8 to setup a Galera Cluster with 3 master nodes. The good news was that this version was shipped with the latest(…)

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(…)

Handling PostgreSQL installations from packages

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pg_auto_failover: Setup and installation

When I attended PGIBZ 2019 earlier this year, I talked with Dimitri about pg_auto_failover and I promised to have a look at it. Well, almost half a year(…)

AEM Forms – Certify PDF end-up with NoSuchMethodError on bouncycastle

As part of an AEM project, we were working on setting up a few actions on PDF files. One of these actions was to Sign & Certify a PDF file. The basic Sign & Certify action provided by AEM is(…)

AEM Forms – WebLogic Clustering synch issue for Workbench 2-way-SSL

In a previous blog, I described the process to setup the AEM Forms to allow the AEM Workbench to connect to AEM using “2-way-SSL”. This setup is normally independent of the Application Server that you are(…)

SLES15 SP1 – New features

With SLES15 SUSE introduced the Multimodal OS and the unified installer. Means, you only get what you really need. Your OS is flexible and you can easily add features you need and remove them as well. But this article shouldn't(…)

MariaDB 10.3.1x + 10.4.x : mysqld_multi not working properly

A couple of days ago, we upgraded some MariaDB instances on a consolidated database server. However, after the software update we were not able to manage our instances anymore using mysqld_multi whatever the MariaDB release (10.3.18 or the latest 10.4.x).

Patroni Operations – Changing Parameters

Sooner or later all of us have to change a parameter on the database. But how is this put into execution when using a Patroni cluster? Of course there are some specifics you have to consider. This post will give(…)