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Deploying your own PostgreSQL image on Nutanix Era – 2 – Deploying a new PostgreSQL VM

In the last post I described how you can create your own PostgreSQL image in Nutanix Era. In Nutanix wording this is a "Software profile". This profile can now be used to deploy PostgreSQL VMs with(…)

Avoiding patching madness by using AWS SSM

As we have more and more customers either currently moving to AWS or already moved much, if not even all, of their workloads to AWS, one question pops up quite frequently: Now that we have so(…)

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(…)

Where can you find core developers asking people what is missing in PostgreSQL? pgconf.eu.2019

One of the major advantages of PostgreSQL conferences when you compare it to other conferences is, that you can listen to talks where the actual developers are presenting their work. You have questions about a feature, you want to know(…)

OpenShift 4.1 Partner Introduction Day

By Mouhamadou Diaw Today was the OpenShift Partner Introduction Day by RedHat. This event happened at Lausanne There were people with different backgrounds. After presenting the RedHat compagny, the speaker explained what is Openshifts and why people must adopt(…)

Red Hat Forum Zürich, 2019, some impressions

Currently the Red Hat Forum 2019 in Zürich is ongoing and people just finished lunch before the more technical sessions are starting.

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(…)