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Useful Linux commands for an Oracle DBA

Introduction Oracle & Linux is a great duet. Very powerfull, very scriptable. Here are several commands that make my life easier. These tools seems to be widespread on most of the Linux distributions. watch with diff It’s my favorite tool(…)

Feedback on the EMEA Red Hat Partner Conference 2019 in Prague

A few weeks ago I attended the Red Hat EMEA Partner Conference for the first time. The Red Hat Conference took place in Prague from June 25th to 27th. If you are interested in Open Source technologies and(…)

Deploying SQL Server on Azure virtual machine with Terraform

We are entering now to the infrastructure as code world and provisioning a SQL Server infrastructure is not excluded from the equation. This is especially true when it comes the Cloud regardless we are using IaaS or PaaS. One(…)

Two node patroni does not failover when one node crashes

A few days ago I had the interesting mission to build a two Node Patroni Postgres 9.6 Cluster using etcd in our openDB Appliance environment. Sounds easy, one leader, one secondary, both running etcd, that's it. But that's only the(…)

Bringing up an OpenShift playground in AWS

Before we begin: This is in no way production ready, as the title states. In a production setup you would put the internal registry on a persistent storage, you would probably have more than one master node and you would(…)

DC/OS: Install Marathon-LB with keepalived

After the minimal setup of the DC/OS in my further articles, I wanted to extend my DC/OS and add a loadbalancer. There are two options for loadbalancing in DC/OS 1. Marathon-LB (a layer 7 load balancer, used for external requests,(…)

Documentum – Silent Install – Things to know, binaries & JMS installation

Documentum introduced some time ago already the silent installations for its software. The way to use this changed a little bit but it seems they finally found their way. This blog will be the first of a series to present(…)

Part 2 – vagrant up – get your Oracle infrastructure up an running

Last week in the first part of this blog we have seen a short introduction how to setup an Oracle Infrastructure with Vagrant and Ansible. Remember(…)

vagrant up – get your Oracle infrastructure up an running

By using Vagrant to manage your Virtual Machines and Ansible for configuration management and provisioning you can easily automate the setup of your whole test environment in a standardized way. If you have never heard about Ansible and Vagrant(…)

2016 is over and it was great, 2017 will be even more exciting in the open source area

Disclaimer: This will not be a technical post at all. The goal is to provide a short overview of what we did in 2016 and what we plan to do in 2017 when it comes to our(…)