The DBA Who Came In From The Cold

Chaos engineering for SQL Server running on AKS using KubeInvaders

• by Andrew Pruski

• The DBA Who Came In From The Cold

A couple of weeks ago I came across an awesome GitHub repo called KubeInvaders which is brilliant work of Eugenio Marzo (b|t) KubeInvaders allows you to play Space Invaders...

2019-07-26 (first published: 2019-07-03)

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Default resource limits for Windows vs Linux containers in Docker Desktop

• by Andrew Pruski

• The DBA Who Came In From The Cold

Docker Desktop is a great product imho. The ability to run Windows and Linux containers locally is great for development and has allowed me to really dig into SQL...

2019-07-03 (first published: 2019-06-19)

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Deploying SQL Server to an Azure Container Instance using Terraform – Part Two

• by Andrew Pruski

• The DBA Who Came In From The Cold

In a previous post I went through how to deploy SQL Server running in an Azure Container Instance using Terraform. In that post, I used hardcoded variables in the...

2019-05-28 (first published: 2019-05-15)

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Deploying SQL Server to an Azure Container Instance using Terraform – Part One

• by Andrew Pruski

• The DBA Who Came In From The Cold

A couple of weeks ago I attended John Martin’s (t) Terraform pre-con at Data in Devon. I’ve been hearing about Terraform recently so was excited to check it out....

2019-05-08

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Using docker named volumes to persist databases in SQL Server

• by Andrew Pruski

• The DBA Who Came In From The Cold

I’ve previously talked about using named volumes to persist SQL Server databases but in that post I only used one...

2019-03-21

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Using Github as a repository for SQL Server Helm Charts

• by Andrew Pruski

• The DBA Who Came In From The Cold

In a previous post I ran through how to create a custom SQL Server Helm chart.
Now that the chart has...

2019-02-27

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Displaying the tags within the SQL Server docker repository

• by Andrew Pruski

• The DBA Who Came In From The Cold

A while back Microsoft moved all their SQL images to their new registry mcr.microsoft.com which means that we can no...

2019-02-22

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Creating custom SQL Server Helm charts

• by Andrew Pruski

• The DBA Who Came In From The Cold

In my previous post I went through how to deploy SQL Server to Kubernetes using Helm in which I used...

2019-03-07 (first published: 2019-02-20)

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Azure Kubernetes Service Error – LoadBalancer type service external IP stays pending

• by Andrew Pruski

• The DBA Who Came In From The Cold

Last week I was working on my Azure Kubernetes Service cluster when I ran into a rather odd issue. I’d...

2019-01-30

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Deploying SQL Server to Kubernetes using Helm

• by Andrew Pruski

• The DBA Who Came In From The Cold

In previous posts I’ve run through how to deploy sql server to Kubernetes using yaml files. That’s a great way...

2019-01-29 (first published: 2019-01-16)

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