The Great Kubernetes Virtualization Debate
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 […]
Author: datatake
SQL Server 2019 Big Data Clusters CU5 – Why OpenShift Matters
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 […]
Deploying Big Data Clusters Part 1: Planning
This series of posts is essentially my presentation from the recent Data Weekender popup virtual conference – in blog form with some bonus additional content. This post focuses on the things you should consider before […]
Building A Sandbox Environment for A Big Data Cluster With microk8s
At work we are seeing a burgeoning demand for Kubernetes test and development environment, as such we have been looking at simple and rapid ways to provision clusters. I have already blogged about the use […]
Big Data Clusters: Bare Metal To Kubernetes
I have not blogged for a while, it was my hope to produce part 5 in the series of creating a Kubernetes cluster for production grade Big Data Clusters. However, there is a very good […]
Scaling Out CI Pipelines With Azure Devops, Docker and SQL Server
The seed of the idea behind this blog post first germinated when I noticed the following yaml: Note the line that includes mergeTestResults, this got me thinking along the lines of running multiple tests in […]
Building A Kubernetes Cluster For SQL Server 2019 Big Data Clusters Part 4: Persistent Storage Concepts
I was originally going to cover storage in its entirety in a single blog post. However, as storage and Kubernetes is the cause of a tremendous amount of confusion in the Microsoft data platform community, […]
Building A Kubernetes Cluster For SQL Server 2019 Big Data Clusters, Part 3: Big Data Cluster Creation
The previous post in this series covered Kubernetes cluster creation via Kubespray. It was my intention to cover off load balancing in this post, however at the time of writing when you create a SQL […]
Building A Kubernetes Cluster For SQL Server 2019 Big Data Clusters, Part 2: Kubernetes Cluster Creation
Part 1 of this series covered the creation of the virtualized infrastructure for creating a Kubernetes cluster on. There are a variety of tools for building clusters, including Kops, Kubespray and Kubeadm. Kubeadm is perhaps […]
Building A Kubernetes Cluster For SQL Server 2019 Big Data Clusters, Part 1: Hyper-V Virtual Machine Creation
This blog post is the first in a series detailing how to build a Kubernetes cluster to deploy a SQL Server 2019 big data cluster to. For the purposes of learning and on-boarding there are […]
