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 […]
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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 […]
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 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 […]
Kubernetes For the Microsoft Data Platform Professional: Can I Run Windows Containers On Kubernetes ?
From a ‘Vanilla’ Kubernetes perspective; where all nodes in the cluster run on Linux, only containers based on Linux images can run. As of version 1.9 of Kubernetes, we are currently on 1.12 at the […]
Kubernetes For The Microsoft Data Platform Professional: Dipping Your Toe In The Water With Minikube
In the previous post the scene was set for why container orchestration is required, what Kubernetes is and why the world of open source should be entered into with ones eyes wide open. This post […]
Kubernetes For The Microsoft Data Platform Professional 101
With the announcement of SQL Server 2019 big data clusters at Ignite, Kubernetes (often abbreviated to K8s) now stands front and center as part of Microsoft’s data platform vision. The obvious inference being that this […]
My 2018 SQL Server, Docker and Jenkins Presentation In Blog Form, Part III: Adding tSQLt Testing To The Mix
Where Were We ? In part I of this series I set the scene for why you would want to use docker and Jenkins for SQL Server continuous integration pipelines. The first post also covered […]
The Kubernetes Storage Eco-System For SQL Server Professionals
There seems to a great deal of interest in containers and Kubernetes at present, fueled by Microsoft hinting that Kubernetes has a big part to play in the future of the Microsoft data platform: Of […]
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