The DBA Who Came In From The Cold

New Pluralsight Course – Kubernetes Package Administration with Helm

• by Andrew Pruski

• The DBA Who Came In From The Cold

My first course Kubernetes Package Administration with Helm has been published on Pluralsight and is now available! Check out the course overview here This course is aimed at anyone...

2020-08-25

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A kubectl plugin to decode secrets created by Helm

• by Andrew Pruski

• The DBA Who Came In From The Cold

Last week I wrote a blog post about Decoding Helm Secrets. The post goes through deploying a Helm Chart to Kubernetes and then running the following to decode the...

2020-08-31 (first published: 2020-08-18)

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Decoding Helm Secrets

• by Andrew Pruski

• The DBA Who Came In From The Cold

Helm is a great tool for deploying applications to Kubernetes. We can bundle up all our yaml files for deployments, services etc. and deploy them to a cluster with...

2020-08-19 (first published: 2020-08-10)

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SQL Server and Docker Compose

• by Andrew Pruski

• The DBA Who Came In From The Cold

I used to think that Docker Compose was used solely to spin up multiple containers, in fact I blogged about doing just that here. That opinion changed when I...

2020-07-27 (first published: 2020-07-17)

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EightKB – Schedule published

• by Andrew Pruski

• The DBA Who Came In From The Cold

Today we announced the schedule for EightKB EightKB was setup by Anthony Nocentino (b|t), Mark Wilkinson (b|t), and myself as we wanted to put on an event that delved...

2020-05-21 (first published: 2020-05-06)

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Running Azure SQL Database Edge on a Raspberry Pi

• by Andrew Pruski

• The DBA Who Came In From The Cold

One of the coolest new projects out there is Azure SQL Database Edge: – https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/sql-database-edge/ This allows SQL Server to run on ARM devices which will expand the range...

2020-04-22

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Running Azure SQL Database Edge on a Raspberry Pi

• by Andrew Pruski

• The DBA Who Came In From The Cold

One of the coolest new projects out there is Azure SQL Database Edge: – https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/sql-database-edge/ This allows SQL to run on ARM devices, just think how many devices are...

2020-04-22

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EightKB – A new virtual SQL Server event

• by Andrew Pruski

• The DBA Who Came In From The Cold

With all the events that have been cancelled over the next few months due to the on-going COVID-19 crisis, Mark Wilkinson (b|t), Anthony Nocentino (b|t), and I wanted to...

2020-04-22 (first published: 2020-04-15)

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Adjusting pod eviction time in Kubernetes

• by Andrew Pruski

• The DBA Who Came In From The Cold

One of the best features of Kubernetes is the built-in high availability. When a node goes offline, all pods on that node are terminated and new ones spun up...

2020-04-17 (first published: 2020-04-08)

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Data Céilí 2020 Cancelled

• by Andrew Pruski

• The DBA Who Came In From The Cold

Yesterday we announced that Data Céilí 2020 has been cancelled due to the continuing threat of COVID-19. As much as we wanted to put this event on, the safety...

2020-04-03

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