Terraform on HP Cloud (Openstack)
I recently gave Terraform a test drive, using HP Cloud (Openstack-based) as the cloud provider, and have to say I was pleasantly surprised that it was one of these "just works" types of tools.Why??I am...
View ArticleGalera on Kubernetes Example now merged
I'm quite pleased to announce that my pull request for Kubernetes which provides a 3-node Galera cluster for Kubernetes was merged last week. I gave a presentation at Percona Live 2015 in Santa Clara,...
View ArticlePre-conference preparation breakage
Just a quick post to help others who get stuck on the problem I solved today that could save a lot of time!IntroductionOf course it's Saturday (what else is there to do?!), and there is a little over a...
View ArticleRunning Kubernetes with Fleet on CoreOS
I'm pleased to announce publicly available Fleet Unit Files for launching a multi-node Kubernetes cluster on CoreOS, kubernetes-cluster-fleetBackgroundI have run Kubernetes in any number of ways,...
View ArticleTerraform setup repository for AWS
Just a quick post for a project I put together using Terraform to build out ready-to-use networking on awsWhat it does in a nutshellThis project basically builds out a VPC with 4 subnets (one public,...
View ArticlePokémon GO scaling with Couchbase
Interesting article on how Pokémon GO is scaling profile services with Couchbase & NoSQL
View ArticlePercona Chart now in Kubernetes Charts
Percona Helm ChartI'm happy to see that my pull request was approved. Pretty simply, it was a Percona Chart. We needed the setup at HPE for our cluster and it was a good excuse to put together a chart,...
View ArticleAMI creation - what is your process?
What is your process for creating AMIs?I’ve had a discussion with a colleague about the process of creating AMIs, or more specifically, dealing with instances that need some sort of state captured. AWS...
View ArticleHAProxy Tip
Question: how do I have HAProxy redirect to another site and preserve the full URL?I’ve been thinking: sometimes I feel that in order to post to my blog, it has to be significant. This runs contrary to...
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Running XtraBackup on Windows using WSL
Backing up MySQL on Windows: options?I had a recurring consultation this summer with a client who is running a stand-alone MySQL database with a ton of data and wanted to simply have a backup system...
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