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Portworx disaster recovery between on-prem and AWS EKS

Portworx disaster recovery between on-prem and AWS EKS

Introduction As a modern company you have started building cloud native applications and you’ve transformed to a DevOps way of working. But now you’ve been tasked with enabling disaster recovery for your Kubernetes environment. This procedure describes the steps required to setup disaster recovery between and on-premises environment and the public cloud (AWS EKS), however the technology describe can easily also be used for on-prem to on-prem or one cloud to another. Also while we are describing DR here, an…

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Install Portworx on EKS by AWS

Install Portworx on EKS by AWS

Introduction So you want to start using persistent storage for you Elastic Kubernetes Services (EKS) cluster on AWS? Let’s go ahead and deploy Portworx Enterprise! For this installation I’ll be using the Portworx Operator with makes both the installation of Portworx really easy, but also allows you to make changes afterwards, or do upgrades of the cluster easily. To make our live easy we’ll use the Cloud Drives integration for AWS, so that Portworx will automatically create the required EBS…

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Install Portworx on VMware vSphere cloud

Install Portworx on VMware vSphere cloud

Introduction So you want to start using persistent storage for you Kubernetes cluster, which runs on VMware vSphere? Let’s go ahead and deploy Portworx Enterprise! For this installation I’ll be using the Portworx Operator with makes both the installation of Portworx really easy, but also allows you to make changes afterwards, or do upgrades of the cluster easily. To make our live easy we’ll use the Cloud Drives integration for VMware, so that Portworx will automatically create the required virtual…

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Using the Ubuntu Cloud Image in VMware

Using the Ubuntu Cloud Image in VMware

When working in the Public Cloud, one of the nice things is that you have all the VM templates available and you can quickly deploy them and start building what ever you want on top of those. However, some of these features are also available to your own datacenter and in this post I will touch on using the Ubuntu Cloud Image as a template in VMware. In this earlier post I have shown the steps on how to create…

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Snapshot protection for PSO using Ansible

Snapshot protection for PSO using Ansible

A Pure Storage customer who has deployed Kubernetes in two datacenters, asked me if we support replication in the Pure Service Orchestrator (PSO) directly from Kubernetes. The short answer is “no”, since currently you cannot setup replication directly from within Kubernetes. While this is something that is on the roadmap I believe, I told the customer that they can use a simple Ansible playbook to achieve this if they wanted to. TLDR? You can get the playbook here: https://github.com/dnix101/purestorage/blob/master/ansible/pso_async_replication.yaml Obviously,…

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