Someone I know had worked at an organization that needed to scale out their OpenShift clusters/footprint, they were constrained by the speed of their procurement department and were wondering if they could get by with […]
Part seven of this series focuses on deploying an Azure Arc enabled Data Services controller to a Kubernetes cluster. As per the closing comments of the last blog post, PX Backup will be covered in […]
Part six of this series will focus on deploying a storage solution to our Kubernetes cluster: Where Were We ? If you have been following this blog post series you should have: a basic grasp […]
Our journey up the stack brings us to the installation of MetalLB – a software load balancer for Kubernetes: All the content in this series of blog posts relates to the Arc-PX-VMware-Faststart repo on GitHub, […]
In the last post, part 3 of this series – we started off at the bottom of the stack with the Terraform module for virtual machine creation. We continue our journey up the stack in […]
Part 3 of this series will begin the journey up the stack, starting with the deployment of the virtual machines that will host the Kubernetes cluster nodes: All the blog posts in this series relate […]
Before diving into what the various Terraform modules do that make up the Arc-PX-VMware-Faststart repo, I’m going to provide an introduction to Terraform in this blog post. Terraform comes from Hashicorp, it is a tool […]
One of the most significant things to change the landscape for Azure data professionals will be general release of Azure Arc enabled Data Services. To provide an expedient means of experiencing all that Azure Arc […]
A source of some interesting discussions at work is whether or not Kubernetes nodes should be virtualized. The thesis behind why this is not a good idea, is the fact that a virtualized layer adds […]
CU5 for SQL Server 2019 Big Data Clusters ushers in support for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, this is a big deal – but what exactly is OpenShift and more saliently; why does it matter […]
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