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Clickhouse Database Imports data from S3! I have been trying out the Clickhouse Database for a few weeks now and really impressed. For those who don’t know, ClickHouse is a high-performance, columnar-oriented database management system designed primarily for real-time analytics. It was developed by Yandex and is known for its ability to process very large volumes of data quickly while using…
Using Terraform With Godaddy So, to start off this post, I haven’t posted on my blog for, a while. I had just been super busy both at Oracle Cloud and then in the role of CTO and CIO at Parler, which after a day of work, and having kids at the premium age for interaction, and I suppose fatigue from being in this industry since 1993, and really technical field going back to the day I went into the…
Here is a nice one-liner to get the password and username set in a kubernetes secret for the Grafana UI after installing Prometheus: kubectl get secret patg-prometheus-stack-grafana -o json|jq '.data."admin-password"'|sed -e 's/"//g'|base64 -D
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 for that data. The client is very risk-averse and didn’t want anything too experimental. I knew for a huge database, I didn’t want to run mysqldump on the database on a regular basis if I could avoid…
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 the whole idea of “release early, release often” ideal in terms of documentation. Why not just post findings when they’re fresh in my mind? Here goes. Today, I had a client who needed one site…
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 offers you the ability to create an image off of an instance. We were pondering in our discussion how that can be possible with the situation of how can AWS ensure that the state of what is being…
Percona Helm Chart I’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, so there ya go! To use it, simply run helm install --name my-release stable/percona What is a Helm chart? Well, for those that don’t know, some prerequisite questions: What is Helm ? Helm is a…
Interesting article on how Pokémon GO is scaling profile services with Couchbase & NoSQL
Just a quick post for a project I put together using Terraform to build out ready-to-use networking on aws What it does in a nutshell This project basically builds out a VPC with 4 subnets (one public, three private) that is all ready to use to build out your AWS environment using Terraform . It’s really simple to use. You just need to edit the variables.tf to suit your AWS account credentials as…
I’m pleased to announce publicly available Fleet Unit Files for launching a multi-node Kubernetes cluster on CoreOS, kubernetes-cluster-fleet Background I have run Kubernetes in any number of ways, particularly using Ansible to set it up, but was recently wanting to see if it was possible to run Kubernetes completely using Fleet unit files on CoreoS– across multiple machines, something I haven’t…