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Currently we begin to see customer adopting containerization for SQL Server databases (mainly driven by CI/CD and DevOps trends). A lot of them are using RedHat OpenShift as container management platform. From my side, I didn’t want to setup a complete OpenShift infrastructure on my lab to test only my SQL Server pod deployment on such infrastructure. I rather installed MiniShift that comes with one OpenShift node cluster which perfectly meets my requirements. …
This blog refers to an older version of EDB’s Postgres on Kubernetes offering that is no longer available. The last blogs in the series are already some days old: Setting up MiniShift, Deploying EDB containers in MiniShift/OpenShift, Customizing PostgreSQL parameters in EDB containers in MiniShift/OpenShift, Scaling the EDB containers in MiniShift/OpenShift, EDB Failover Manager in EDB containers in Minishift/OpenShift and EDB Failover Manager in EDB containers in Minishift/OpenShift – Failovers. What is missing is how…
The release of Docker for Windows Stable version 18.06..0-ce-win70 comes with some great new features I looked for a while including the K8s support! That’s a pretty good news because this support has existed on Edge channel since the beginning of this year but no chance to install a beta version on my laptop from my side. So, we get now a good opportunity to test locally our SQL Server image with a K8s single…
By Franck Pachot . The Oracle Database is fully supported on Docker according that Linux is Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 or Oracle Enterprise Linux 7 with Unbreakable Enterprise 4. This is documented in MOS Note 2216342.1. Given the size of the Oracle database in GigaBytes even empty, the way it is installed at build with many file updates, and the per-block modifications of the datafiles, a block level copy-on-write filesystem is a must and…
A couple of weeks ago, a customer asked me how to restart containers automatically after a reboot of the underlying host. In his context, it was not an insignificant question because some containers are concerned by SQL Server databases and he wanted to stay relaxed as long as possible even after a maintenance of the Linux host by sysadmins. The concerned (DEV) environment doesn’t include container orchestration like Swarm or Kubernetes. The interesting point is…
This blog post comes from an interesting experience with one customer about upgrading SQL Server on a Docker environment. Let’s set quickly the context: a production environment that includes a standalone Docker engine on the top of openSUSE Linux distribution with some SQL Server 2017 Linux containers. The deal was to update those SQL Server instances from 2017 CU1 to 2017 CU7. The point is we applied the same kind of upgrades earlier on the morning but it…
After spending some times with Docker Swarm let’s introduce SQL Server on Kubernetes (aka K8s). Why another container orchestrator? Well, because Microsoft gives a strong focus on Kubernetes in their documentation and their events and because K8s is probably one of the most popular orchestration tools in the IT industry. By the way, I like to refer to the Portworx Annual Container Adoption Survey to get a picture of container trend over the years and we…
This blog refers to an older version of EDB’s Postgres on Kubernetes offering that is no longer available. In the last post we had a look at the basic configuration of EDB EFM and confirmed that we can do manual switchovers for maintenance operations. Being able to do a switchover and switchback is fine but what really is important are automatic failovers. Without an automatic failover this setup would be somehow useless as a) EDB…
The next SQL Saturday in Paris is coming soon and the agenda has been published by the @GUSS on twitter. Le prochain SQL Saturday Paris arrive bientôt et l’agenda a été publié sur Twitter par le @GUSS Cette année, un savant mélange de speakers francophones et internationaux, un plus pour les participants … Un rapide coup d’œil à l’agenda – si on se focalise sur la partie moteur SQL Server – montre également qu’une bonne…
I spent some times to write blog posts about SQL Server on Docker since few months and you likely noticed it concerned mainly SQL Server on Linux. But what about SQL Server on Docker and Windows? If you take a look at the Docker images provided by Microsoft, only 2017 version is available and it is only intended for development and testing use. Versions prior 2017 seem to not be supported so far (but I…
