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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
