Cloud, DevOps, PostgreSQL Creating your private cloud using OpenStack – (5) – The Compute service 23.01.2025 by Daniel Westermann We’re now coming closer to the final setup of the OpenStack test environment. Again, looking at the minimum services we need, there are only three of them left: Keystone: Identity service (done)(…)
Cloud, DevOps, PostgreSQL Creating your private cloud using OpenStack – (4) – The Image and Placement services 21.01.2025 by Daniel Westermann By the end of the last post we finally got the first OpenStack service up and running: Keystone, the Identity Service. Going back to the list of services we need at a(…)
Cloud, DevOps, PostgreSQL Creating your private cloud using OpenStack – (3) – Keystone, the Identity Service 20.01.2025 by Daniel Westermann By the end of the last post, we finished with preparing the controller and compute node for being ready to deploy the first OpenStack service: Keystone, the Identity Service. Before we dive into the details lets(…)
Cloud, DevOps, PostgreSQL Creating your private cloud using OpenStack – (2) – Preparing the nodes 17.01.2025 by Daniel Westermann In the introduction post we’ve briefly looked at some options you have available when you want to build your own private cloud. In this post we’re going to start our journey into OpenStack by preparing the(…)
Operating systems FreeBSD basics – 6 – The ports collection 11.12.2024 by Daniel Westermann If you followed the previous introduction posts about FreeBSD (here, here, here, here and here) you should already know how(…)
Database Administration & Monitoring, Database management, Operating systems FreeBSD basics – 5 – Providing services using Jails 05.12.2024 by Daniel Westermann This post builds on top of the previous post in which we’ve created a simple thin Jail. The goal of this post is, to put a bit of automation around this and to provide a simple(…)
Operating systems FreeBSD basics – 4 – Jails 03.12.2024 by Daniel Westermann Now that we know how to get started with FreeBSD, how to manage users and groups, and how to work with services, we’ll look a bit into(…)
Operating systems FreeBSD basics – 2 – Users & Groups 28.11.2024 by Daniel Westermann In the last post, we’ve initially configured FreeBSD so that networking is up and running, additional packages can be installed, and the system was patched to the latest release. In this post we’ll look at how(…)
Operating systems FreeBSD basics – 1 – The first steps 27.11.2024 by Daniel Westermann In case you follow the blogs here, you might have noticed that I got interested in FreeBSD over the last months (or even year(s)). The reasons for this are multiple: FreeBSD development is organized in very(…)
Cloud, Database Administration & Monitoring, Database management, DevOps CloudNativePG – Connecting external applications 16.08.2024 by Daniel Westermann Now that we know how we can benchmark a CloudNativePG deployment, it is time to look at how we can connect external applications to the PostgreSQL cluster. Usually, applications run in the same Kubernetes cluster and(…)