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Kubespray (part 2/3): Prepare Ubuntu VM’s

Kubespray (part 2/3): Prepare Ubuntu VM’s

About this lab vTeam Specialization Program Recently I was nominated to join the Pure Storage vTeam Specialization Program for New Stack. The idea behind the program is to provide a community within Pure for Puritans to learn and develop skills and grow into a subject matter expert. The program consists of training and lab exercises that are focussed on developing experience in the New Stack space (Kubernetes, Ansible, Open Stack and more). And since I think there are more people out there…

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Kubespray (part 1/3): Install Ubuntu 20.04

Kubespray (part 1/3): Install Ubuntu 20.04

About this lab vTeam Specialization Program Recently I was nominated to join the Pure Storage vTeam Specialization Program for New Stack. The idea behind the program is to provide a community within Pure for Puritans to learn and develop skills and grow into a subject matter expert. The program consists of training and lab exercises that are focussed on developing experience in the New Stack space (Kubernetes, Ansible, Open Stack and more). And since I think there are more people…

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Backup and restore a SQL 2019 Big Data Cluster using Ansible

Backup and restore a SQL 2019 Big Data Cluster using Ansible

This blog will focus on creating a backup and being able to restore that backup for a Microsoft SQL 2019 Big Data cluster using Ansible and the Pure Storage FlashArray. As you might know SQL Big Data clusters run in Kubernetes for the most part, and use multiple StatefulSets to store the data (as shown in the diagram below). But first, why did I created these Ansible playbooks? Well, have you ever experienced that moment when a colleague posts a…

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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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Using Ansible for Hybrid Cloud DevOps – part 2 of 2

Using Ansible for Hybrid Cloud DevOps – part 2 of 2

This is the second part of this blog on using Ansible within a Hybrid Cloud DevOps environment. If you missed the first part, that a look here https://d-nix.nl/2019/08/using-ansible-for-hybrid-cloud-devops/. In the first part I demonstrated using Ansible and the Pure Storage FlashArray or Cloud Block Store to replicate a block storage volume from one array to the other. The way Pure handles snapshots and volume copies is very simple and flexible which makes it a very powerful product in a DevOps…

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Using Ansible for Hybrid Cloud DevOps – part 1 or 2

Using Ansible for Hybrid Cloud DevOps – part 1 or 2

Update October 22nd: Changed the Ansible playbook to use the purefa_info module instead of the purefa_facts following the change as described here. Lately I’ve been spending more time on Kubernetes, since I believe that containers and serverless together provide the foundation for any Cloud Native application, that could be even bigger than VMware is for virtualisation. However when I speak with organisations on how they use containers, they basically tell me that containers are only used for new applications, created…

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