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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

In the first post in this series I covered why you might want to use Jenkins as a CI engine and how to deploy to SQL Server running in a container using the ‘Sidecar’ pattern. […]

The mainstay of my presentation material this year has been my deck on continuous integration, Docker and Jenkins. For people who have not had the chance to see this presentation or have seen it and […]

In the previous part of this blog post I discussed how containers could be used to scale out a singleton work load. Where as my attempts to get my experiments to work ran into difficulties […]

I will forewarn readers of this blog post that this is ‘Conceptual’ in nature, due to the fact in my tests I was spinning up containers which then fell over with core dumps. Nonetheless, I […]