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How to Contribute to the YaK Project: Adding a New Infrastructure Provider (e.g., OpenShift Virtualization)

YaK is a platform-agnostic framework designed to streamline and automate the deployment of infrastructure and middleware components (database, K8S,etc..) across various environments. With its open-source core, YaK enables developers, DevOps teams, and IT professionals to manage infrastructure provisioning and component deployment efficiently, without being tied to a specific vendor. Whether you’re working with AWS, Azure, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), or on-premises servers, YaK… 

Introduction to PostgreSQL in OpenShift

I’m on a mission to tackle scary topics around DevOps these days! In my 2 previous blog posts (Part 1 and Part 2) I’ve tried to demystified the DevOps word (and world!) by describing what it actually is with a simple example. But there is an even scarier topic (true story!), which is… deploying a database in Kubernetes! Database is… 

Install NeuVector 5 on OpenShift Local 4.14

I’ve been playing around with 2 applications recently: OpenShift from Red Hat and NeuVector from SUSE. At some point I’ve wondered if I couldn’t play with both at the same time. Read on as I’ll share some tips & tricks I didn’t see anywhere else! The Basics I’m using OpenShift Local which is free to use and I’ve installed it… 

Interacting with OpenShift Local in an Azure VM

In my previous blog I’ve written about the no or low cost solutions to setup an OpenShift cluster to play with. I’ve detailed the installation of OpenShift Local on Azure. OpenShift Local is like a mini cluster that is installed on just one virtual machine (node). I’ve also shared the tips on how to properly stop the cluster before shutting… 

Test OpenShift 4 at low cost in Azure

If you want to learn and test OpenShift 4 (the last release is 4.14 at this time of writing), you may not want to go straight with the installation of a full cluster. Using the OpenShift Service of a cloud provider is costly. Even if you want to install it all by yourself in the cloud, you’ll still need several… 

GitLab Migration and Upgrade

I’ve worked with my mate Donovan Winter (we are called Thomson and Thompson!) on a very interesting project for one of our customer that’s worth sharing. They had an old version of GitLab (release 13.3.4) running in a pod in OpenShift and wanted to migrate it into a Virtual Machine under Rocky Linux 8. They then wanted to upgrade it… 

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. As expected a lot is around OpenShift 4 and automation with Ansible. As dbi is a Red Hat advanced business partner we took the opportunity to be present with a booth for getting in touch with our existing… 

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 probably have more than on compute node. Security is not covered at all here. This post is intended to quickly… 

Deploying SQL Server on MiniShift / RedHat OpenShift

Currently we begin to see customer adopting containerization for SQL Server databases (mainly driven by CI/CD and DevOps trends). A lot of them are using RedHat OpenShift as container management platform. From my side, I didn’t want to setup a complete OpenShift infrastructure on my lab to test only my SQL Server pod deployment on such infrastructure. I rather installed… 

Backing up and restoring EDB containers in MiniShift/OpenShift

This blog refers to an older version of EDB’s Postgres on Kubernetes offering that is no longer available. The last blogs in the series are already some days old: Setting up MiniShift, Deploying EDB containers in MiniShift/OpenShift, Customizing PostgreSQL parameters in EDB containers in MiniShift/OpenShift, Scaling the EDB containers in MiniShift/OpenShift, EDB Failover Manager in EDB containers in Minishift/OpenShift and… 

OpenShift on my Windows 10 laptop with MiniShift

By Franck Pachot . If you want to play with OpenShift on your laptop, you can, in a Virtual Machine. I have VirtualBox installed on my laptop. I’ll install Minishift here, which will create the VM to run OpenShift with few simple commands only. On Linux you can refer to Daniel’s post. Here is the Windows version. Oh, and Daniel…