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Building a transportable Oracle Sandbox environment for an Apple Silicon Laptop (MacBook with M1- or M2-processor)

Since Apple released their Apple Silicon Laptops based on the ARM processor architecture, it became difficult for Consultants with such a device to run their Oracle Sandbox environment, because the main Oracle products are running on the Intel architecture. Hence(…)

Using Admission Controller in Kubernetes

Undoubtedly, Kubernetes has become the standard for container orchestration, making it necessary to work with extensions that add a layer of security and modularity. So, what exactly are these extensions? According to the Kubernetes documentation, “An admission controller is a(…)

Deploy awx-operator with Helm using images from a local registry

You want to deploy Ansible AWX on a Kubernetes cluster using awx-operator, but your security policy requires you to use a local registry to store the necessary container images ? Okay, let’s see how to do(…)

MongoDB:Backup and restore with mongodump and mongorestore

Introduction: As for Redis , MongoDB has its own backup utility to export and import data.This tool allow you in a single command to backup your database and your collections and then to load them. To save your data, we(…)

Elasticsearch – Snapshot Lifecycle Management (SLM)

In a previous blog, I spoke about snapshot, restore, and briefly about Snapshot Lifecycle Management. In this blog, I will go more in deep in SLM.

Elasticsearch – Snapshot and Restore

No need to explain what is a snapshot and restore, how much they are important to any platform, software, database, aso. In this blog, I will show you how to take snapshots of your Elasticsearch cluster and how to restore.

Zabbix Agent Automated Registration

For those reading my blog posts regularly, you know I am an fan of automation. Declaring each host in Zabbix configuration manually is not an idea I like very much. Moreover, in dynamic environments which are moving a lot, manual(…)

MongoDB Redis : What are the differences?

Introduction: MongoDB and Redis are both NoSQL databases.In other words they don’t use “traditional” relational database to manage data. Although they have the same label – NoSQL – their storage concepts are very different: MongoDB stores data on disk, whereas(…)

Zabbix Automatic Item Creation

In my previous Zabbix blog post, I wanted to monitor JVM garbage collection metrics. As there are 17 items to create, I looked for a way to automatically create them. I found it 🙂 . In(…)

Kubernetes Community Days 2023 in Zürich

I attended for the first time the KCD (Kubernetes Community Days) in Zürich with my colleagues Jean-Philippe and Arjen. I can say I was pretty eager to know more about topics around Kubernetes and eBPF stuff as Isovalent was well(…)