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The Great Kubernetes Virtualization Debate

  • by datatake
  • Posted on July 2, 2020July 2, 2020
  • kubernetes

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 […]

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SQL Server 2019 Big Data Clusters CU5 – Why OpenShift Matters

  • by datatake
  • Posted on June 24, 2020
  • big data clusters

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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Deploying Big Data Clusters Part 1: Planning

  • by datatake
  • Posted on May 14, 2020
  • big data clusters

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 […]

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Building A Sandbox Environment for A Big Data Cluster With microk8s

  • by datatake
  • Posted on April 5, 2020
  • Uncategorized

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 […]

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Big Data Clusters: Bare Metal To Kubernetes

  • by datatake
  • Posted on March 31, 2020
  • Uncategorized

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 […]

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Scaling Out CI Pipelines With Azure Devops, Docker and SQL Server

  • by datatake
  • Posted on September 2, 2019
  • Azure DevOps

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 […]

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Building A Kubernetes Cluster For SQL Server 2019 Big Data Clusters Part 4: Persistent Storage Concepts

  • by datatake
  • Posted on April 11, 2019April 19, 2019
  • Uncategorized

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, […]

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Building A Kubernetes Cluster For SQL Server 2019 Big Data Clusters, Part 3: Big Data Cluster Creation

  • by datatake
  • Posted on February 5, 2019February 5, 2019
  • big data clusters

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 […]

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Building A Kubernetes Cluster For SQL Server 2019 Big Data Clusters, Part 2: Kubernetes Cluster Creation

  • by datatake
  • Posted on December 29, 2018September 18, 2020
  • big data clusters

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 […]

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Building A Kubernetes Cluster For SQL Server 2019 Big Data Clusters, Part 1: Hyper-V Virtual Machine Creation

  • by datatake
  • Posted on December 18, 2018September 18, 2020
  • SQL

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 […]

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