The DBA Who Came In From The Cold

EightKB is coming!

• by Andrew Pruski

• The DBA Who Came In From The Cold

The next EightKB is coming on January 27th, kicking off at 2pm UTC. Once again we have 5 mind melting sessions on 5 in-depth SQL Server internals topics, from...

2021-01-13 (first published: 2021-01-07)

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Provisioning storage for Azure SQL Edge running on a Raspberry Pi Kubernetes cluster

• by Andrew Pruski

• The DBA Who Came In From The Cold

In a previous post we went through how to setup a Kubernetes cluster on Raspberry Pis and then deploy Azure SQL Edge to it. In this post I want...

2020-12-16 (first published: 2020-12-07)

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Updating my Kubernetes Raspberry Pi Cluster to containerd

• by Andrew Pruski

• The DBA Who Came In From The Cold

There’s been a lot of conversations happening on twitter over the last couple of days due to the fact that Docker is deprecated in Kubernetes v1.20. If you want...

2020-12-03

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Building a Raspberry Pi cluster to run Azure SQL Edge on Kubernetes

• by Andrew Pruski

• The DBA Who Came In From The Cold

A project I’ve been meaning to work on for a while has been to build my own Kubernetes cluster running on Raspberry Pis. I’ve been playing around with Kubernetes...

2020-12-11 (first published: 2020-11-30)

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Differences between using a Load Balanced Service and an Ingress in Kubernetes

• by Andrew Pruski

• The DBA Who Came In From The Cold

What is the difference between using a load balanced service and an ingress to access applications in Kubernetes? Basically, they achieve the same thing. Being able to access an...

2020-12-02 (first published: 2020-11-23)

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EightKB is back!

• by Andrew Pruski

• The DBA Who Came In From The Cold

We’re back! The first EightKB back in July was a real blast. Five expert speakers delivered mind-melting content to over 1000 attendees! We were honestly blown away by how...

2020-11-30 (first published: 2020-11-18)

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Migrating SQL Server container images to the Github Container Registry

• by Andrew Pruski

• The DBA Who Came In From The Cold

A couple of months ago Docker announced that they would be implementing a 6 month retention policy for unused images in the Docker Hub. This was due to kick...

2020-11-04 (first published: 2020-10-29)

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The SQL Server and Containers Guide

• by Andrew Pruski

• The DBA Who Came In From The Cold

I’ve been blogging about running SQL Server in Docker containers for a while now and, to be honest, my blogs are scattered over a few years and some need...

2020-10-07 (first published: 2020-09-30)

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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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