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CloudnativePG – Bootstrapping an empty cluster

In the last post we’ve created a very simple three node PostgreSQL cluster using CloudNativePG and this was really easy to do. While this is great to get started quickly, you usually want to have(…)

CloudNativePG on minicube on openSUSE Leap Micro 6

Some time ago I’ve written a small blog about how to get openSUSE Leap Micro 6 up and running. As one of the use cases for this distributions is to run container workloads, the next natural step is to(…)

M-Files IMPACT Global Conference 2024 – Second Day

A summary of the topics from the second day of the M-Files IMPACT Global Conference 2024. Introduction to the second day of M-Files IMPACT Global Conference 2024 The second day of the of the M-Files IMPACT Global Conference 2024 has(…)

Make SQL Server services more secure with Managed Service Accounts

In the past years, I actively have been involved in securing MSSQL Instances (and other services).This lead me to use the Managed Service Accounts (MSA) and the grouped Managed Service Accounts (gMSA)The MSA have been introduced in Windows Server 2008(…)

PostgreSQL and huge pages on Windows

Configuring the operating system for huge pages on Linux and make PostgreSQL using it is quite simple and straight forward. Here are two quite old post on how to do this, one for Debian systems, one for(…)

Investigative look into cloud-native hyper-converged infrastructure with Harvester (2)

In this second blog, we will see how we can deploy a Microsoft Windows Server 2022 virtual machine on Harvester, and play a little bit with scheduling.

Simulate (Transparent Tablespace Encryption) TDE on Oracle Standard Edition

by Alexandre Nestor Introduction The Oracle database Standard Edition do not have the Transparent Tablespace Encryption (TDE) feature which is a part of ASO (Advanced Security), and ASO is availabale only on Entreprise Edition version. But encryption can still be(…)

How I killed my M-Files instance…and brought it back to life!

I work with M-Files since 1 year now, and to be honest the solution is pretty robust.I had really few issues at “Server level”, but sooner and later while playing sorcerer’s apprentice you finish by breaking something. The inevitable happened,(…)

Using WebHooks with GitLab to launch external tools

by Alexandre Nestor Introduction WebHooks are HTTP callbacks that are triggered by events. In case of GitlLab these can be events like pushing some code, or creating an issue, or pushing some comments, create a merge request and so on.

Time to test: PostgreSQL 17beta1 is there

It is this time of the year when a new PostgreSQL major version beta release is available for testing. PostgreSQL 17 (scheduled to be released later this year) is no exception to that: Last week, the first beta of PostgreSQL(…)