Infrastructure at your Service
In the last post we’ve brought up a RKE Kubernetes cluster on a single node. While that is cool for demonstration purposes or testing, this is nothing for a real life setup. Running the control pane, the etcd nodes and the worker nodes all on one node, is nothing you want to do usually, as you can not guarantee fault tolerance with such a setup. To make the RKE cluster highly available we’ll be adding…
In this short blog post, I will discuss about SUSE Rancher 2.5, the latest version. In this release, the rancher-monitoring has been introduced. With this cool feature, you can quickly deploy open-source monitoring as Promotheus and Grafana for your kubernetes clusters
Introduction Oracle Database Appliance has quite a lot of nice features, but when looking into the documentation, at least one thing is missing. How to configure multiple listeners? Odacli apparently doesn’t know what’s a listener. Let’s find out how to add new ones. odacli Everything should be done using odacli on ODA, but unfortunately odacli has no commands for configuring listeners: odacli -h | grep listener nothing! The wrong way to configure a listener One…
PostgreSQL gives you the possibility for two-phase commit. You’ll might need that if you want an atomic distributed commit. If you check the PostgreSQL documentation there is a clear warning about using these kind of transactions: “Unless you’re writing a transaction manager, you probably shouldn’t be using PREPARE TRANSACTION”. If you really need to use them, you need to be very careful, that prepared transactions are committed or rollback-ed as soon as possible. In other…
Introduction ODA started to become popular with X3-2 and X4-2 in 2013/2014. These 2 ODAs were very similar. The X5-2 from 2015 was different with 3.5 inches disks instead of 2.5 inches and additional SSDs for small databases (FLASH diskgroup). All these 3 ODAs were running 11gR2 and 12cR1 databases and were managed by the oakcli binary. If you’re still using these old machines, you should know that there is a lot of differences compared…
Introduction In this blog post, I will demonstrate how the Resumable capability of Online index rebuild operation can help you to keep the transaction log file size under control. An index rebuild operation is done in a single transaction that can require a significant log space. When doing a Rebuild on a large index the transaction log file can grow until your run out of disk space. On failure, the transaction needs to rollback. You…
Often there is the requirement to populate a test or development database with data from production, but this comes with a risk: Do you really want, that developers or testers have access to sensitive data? In a lot of companies this might not be an issue, but for others, sensitive data must not be available to any other database than production. In Oracle there is Data Masking but there is nothing in Community PostgreSQL which…
Coming back to the last post: 8000 databases in one PostgreSQL cluster?. As we’ve seen this is doable but comes with a lot of pain points. Another solution for this kind of requirement would be to host 8000 PostgreSQL clusters on one host. Again, I am not saying this is something you should do, and again, this is not how it finally will be implemented. This is more about if you can do it, and…
This is the next post in this little series about PostgreSQL on FreeBSD. You can find the previous one here: PostgreSQL on FreeBSD, getting started PostgreSQL on FreeBSD, updating & configuration PostgreSQL on FreeBSD, installation from packages The downside with installing from packages on FreeBSD is, that you can only run one version of PostgreSQL. If you want to run more than one, you need to install from source code, and this is the topic…
In the last two posts we installed FreeBSD, configured networking, updated the system, installed bash and had a quick look at kernel parameters. In this post we’ll install PostgreSQL from packages. Of course you can also install PostgreSQL from source code, but this will be the topic for the next post.
