Docker becomes more and more popular these days and a lot of companies start to really use it. At one project we decided to build our own customized Docker image instead of using the official PostgreSQL one. The main reason for that is that we wanted to compile from source so that we only get want is really required. Why…
SQL Server 2017 is available on multiple platforms: Windows, Linux and Docker. The latter provides containerization features with no lengthy setup and special prerequisites before running your SQL Server databases which are probably the key success of adoption for developers. It was my case as developer for our DMK management kit which provide to our customers a SQL Server database…
By Franck Pachot . Did you notice that each time you want to download the Oracle binaries from the OTN website (for non-production usage) you have to click on the “Accept License Agreement”? This is because you have to agree with the OTN license agreement, and that makes it not easy to distribute an automated way to build an environment.…
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 Open Infrastructure division. We’ll start with a few figures then look at the events we did and some of the projects we completed…
In the last post we quickly looked at how you can install everything you need to run docker containers on a CentOS 7 host and did bring up the official PostgreSQL image. However there are good reasons not to rely on an existing image: You want to deliver a pre-configured base image which includes everything your application requires and you…
Everybody is talking about Docker nowadays. What it is about? Do you remember Solaris Zones or Containers? It is more or less the same although development of Docker during the last years made Linux Containers the de-facto standard for deploying applications in a standardized and isolated way. Docker is build in a classical client server model: There is the docker…
Running SQL Server everywhere is not a dream anymore! Microsoft has just announced the first release of SQL Server CTP1 on Linux today! But that’s not all! SQL Server Vnext is also available on Windows, Mac (via Docker), on a physical machine, virtual machine and on a docker container as well … So everywhere you want! Enjoy! By David Barbarin
Some weeks ago, I did a general presentation about Windows Server 2016 and the new Container feature (here). Today, I will go through the installation and utilization of Windows Containers. I will use a Virtual Machine, under Hyper-V, during this blog. First of all, I have to set the environment to be able to use Windows Containers as it requires…
One of the new feature which will come with Windows Server 2016 is the Containers. Microsoft made available its fourth technical preview of his Windows Server 2016 platform some days ago. This new Technical Preview brings with it and for the first time Hyper-V Containers as the Technical Preview three came with the first release of Windows Server Containers. I…
On the 2cnd of July the PostgreSQL Global Development Group released an alpha version of the upcoming PostgreSQL 9.5. The same day, Josh Berkus, another of those PostgreSQL core team members released a docker image for testing this alpha release. It’s never been that easy to get started with PostgreSQL or testing new features. If you are on Linux the…
