Infrastructure at your Service
Today (actually right now) we are a proud sponsor of the Red Hat Forum Switzerland 2019 in Geneva. With around 300 people attending this is quite a huge event and we had a lot of interesting discussions with other partners as well as existing customers or just people we met and didn’t know before.
You may have heard that : Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 is available for downloading in beta version since few weeks… You want to download it ? Click here. A significant change coming with this new version is the way the applications packages are provided. As you know, up to RHEL7 packages were downloaded via repositories listed in .repo files located by default under /etc/yum.repos.d/. This is still the same with RHEL8, but two new…
It happens within the blink of an eye. A delete command was executed and half a second after you hit the enter button you knew it. That was a mistake. This is the scenario which leads to this blog entry in where I show you how you can get your files back if you are lucky…
I tried to apply a patch to my 18.3.0 GI/ASM two node cluster on RHEL 7.5. The first node worked fine, but the second node got always an error…
This is the start of a series of posts I wanted to write for a long time: Getting started with Red Hat Satellite. Just in case you don’t know what it is, this statement from the official Red Hat website summarizes it quite well: “As your Red Hat® environment continues to grow, so does the need to manage it to a high standard of quality. Red Hat Satellite is an infrastructure management product specifically designed…
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. …
Holidays is over and let’s start working with a funny write-up. I was reading interesting stuff done by my colleagues Franck Pachot and Daniel Westermann about reducing the size of Oracle / PostgreSQL binaries at the minimum in the context of a Docker images. I was curious what can be done on SQL Server side on Linux environment but just keep in mind that some operations performed in this post are probably not supported in…
Sometimes it is required that you can react on state changes of your network interfaces. Maybe you want to get notified by mail or you want to execute a script that does something in case an event is trapped. As usual I will be using CentOS 7 for this little demonstration but as most distributions use systemd and NetworkManager nowadays this should work more or less the same on Debian based distributions.
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…
Let’s start the story from the beginning with some funny testing I tried to perform with SQL Server on Linux a couple of months ago. At that time, I wanted to get some pictures of syscalls from SQL Server as I already did in a past on Windows side with sysinternal tools as procmon and stack traces. On Linux strace is probably one of the best counterparts. Firstly, please note this blog is just from…
