2024 Reflections
As this is the final newsletter of 2024, I took the opportunity to review all the announcements we made this year. On the DRBD side, we fixed increasingly exotic bugs. That aligns with the observation that customers use it in larger installations and fleet sizes. The biggest we know of has about 8PB storage under […]
Building the Community at LINBIT
I’m going to share a bit about selecting a community communications platform, our updated company core values, and how goals have evolved over the years at LINBIT. Freenode → Slack → Discourse Forum It was mid May 2021 and the news that Freenode was being taken over was popping up on all of the news […]
GitLab High Availability With DRBD & Pacemaker
Introduction GitLab is a robust DevOps platform used by many organizations and developers. You can easily install GitLab as a self-managed web application. This blog post will guide you through all of the required steps to install and configure a highly available GitLab environment with DRBD® and Pacemaker. Installation overview This blog post contains configuration […]
Managing AWS EBS Volumes Using LINSTOR
Cloud storage is a critical component of running persistent workloads in the cloud, especially in hybrid cloud environments. LINSTOR®, the open source storage orchestration tool from LINBIT®, integrates seamlessly with Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Block Store (EBS) to simplify the management of EBS volumes. LINSTOR also layers DRBD®, LINBIT’s block device replication driver, over EBS volumes […]
Open Source Innovations & Solutions at LINBIT
Perhaps there is a feeling that you might be making the world a better place by choosing to use open source software rather than other alternatives. Maybe this positive feeling spawns an action. If you get a benefit from using a particular open source project, sometimes you might support that project by making a donation […]
Comparing CloudStack, OpenNebula & OpenStack
This post is intended to help someone learn more about three of the most popular open source virtualization management platforms for large IaaS deployments (in alphabetical order): CloudStack, OpenNebula, and OpenStack. You are reading this article on the LINBIT® blog because LINBIT develops integrations for these platforms that you can use to provide software-defined storage […]
Development Work on the WinDRBD 1.2 Branch for Highly Available Windows Services
This article is an update on the LINBIT® team’s WinDRBD development work, particularly the WinDRBD 1.2 branch, since I first wrote this article in September, 2023. In brief, development work on the 1.2 branch was delayed because the team spent time (around 10 months) and effort getting WinDRBD 1.1 rock solid stable. The time and effort were worth […]
