13 August 2024
In the world of virtualization, ensuring data redundancy and high availability is crucial. Proxmox Virtual Environment (PVE) is a powerful open-source platform for enterprise virtualization, combining KVM hypervisor and LXC containers. One of the key features that Proxmox offers is local storage replication, which helps in maintaining data integrity and availability in case of hardware […]
29 July 2024
How and when to use Software-Defined Networks in Proxmox VE Proxmox is still the current go to solution when it comes to VM workloads by using open-source software. In the past, we already covered several topics around Proxmox, like migrating virtual machines from an ESXi environment to Proxmox environments, using Proxmox in addition to NVMe-oF […]
23 July 2024
On Thursday, 27 June, and Friday, 28 June 2024, I had the amazing opportunity to attend Swiss PGDay 2024. The conference was held at the OST Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences, Campus Rapperswil, which is beautifully situated on the banks of Lake Zurich in a nice, green environment. With approximately 110 attendees, the event […]
02 July 2024
Hashicorp Terraform is a well-known infrastructure automation tool mostly targeting cloud deployments. Instaclustr (a part of NetApp’s CloudOps division and credativ’s parent company) provides a managed service for various data stores, including PostgreSQL. Provisioning managed clusters is possible via the Instaclustr console, a REST API or through the Instaclustr Terraform Provider. In this first part […]
26 June 2024
On Wednesday, June 5th, I attended the Prague PostgreSQL Developers Day 2024. It is the premier PostgreSQL conference in the Czech Republic, and this year marked its 16th iteration. The event was held in the modern and convenient environment of the Czech Technical University and was attended by almost 270 participants. During the conference, I […]