Kubernetes at the Edge Using LINBIT SDS for Persistent Storage
Edge computing is a distributed computing paradigm that brings data processing and computation closer to the data source or “edge”
Is the Open Source World Under Financial Pressure?
Two weeks ago, the news that EQT is buying back SUSE shares got some attention in the Linux world, which
LINBIT Offers Official DRBD Basics Training
LINBIT® is offering an official training package for Linux system administrators who are interested in getting started using DRBD® to
Setting Up LINBIT SDS with OpenNebula for Resilient & Flexible Storage
Authors: Michael Troutman & Rene Peinthor — This post will guide you through integrating LINBIT SDS (LINSTOR® and DRBD®) with
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DRBD Starter Package
LINBIT® has been dedicated to open source since its inception. All of LINBIT’s code is freely available on GitHub, as well as prepackaged downloads on LINBIT.com.
Is “Enterprise Linux” fragmented? Will there be RHEL and Open Enterprise Linux?
Following the recent pattern, the discussion about Red Hat’s move to no longer make the source code for RHEL publicly available continues. The most recent
Deploying LINBIT SDS in an Air-Gapped Kubernetes Cluster
Authors: Joel Zhou & Michael Troutman — Deploying LINBIT SDS into an air-gapped Kubernetes cluster can be useful when your Kubernetes deployment requires persistent, highly
Introducing the LINBIT GUI
A Visual Approach to LINBIT SDS Here at LINBIT®, we live at the shell prompt, but on occasion, getting a graphical view of things can
A Brief History of Source Code Distribution Practices
First, I’d like to continue the evolving discussion about RedHat’s move to limit its RHEL source code to its paying customers and cut off clones
How to Setup LINSTOR on Proxmox VE
Authors: Ryan Ronnander & Roland Kammerer — In this technical blog post, we show you how to integrate LINSTOR® with Proxmox VE using a storage
DRBD Reactor & Pacemaker: A Side-by-Side Comparison
In this blog post, I want to expand a little bit further on my colleague, and DRBD Reactor developer, Roland’s post, High-Availability with DRBD Reactor &
RHEL Compatible Distribution
You may have noticed that the newsletter got one week off from its usual cadence. That is due to my two-week summer vacation. We spent
Deploy a LINSTOR Cluster Using Ansible
LINSTOR®, the software behind LINBIT®’s software defined storage solutions, can be integrated into many different platforms and many different environments. Most of LINSTOR’s platform integrations
Making Nagios XI Highly Available on RHEL 9 by Using DRBD & Pacemaker Tech Guide
LINBIT® has an updated and expanded technical guide available with instructions for making a Nagios XI deployment highly available by using DRBD® and Pacemaker on
Thoughts on Red Hat’s Source Repository Changes
Recently, Red Hat’s change in how they distribute the source code of their distro caught my (and the open source world’s) attention. The Register has an excellent historical
The Benefits of Hyperconverged Infrastructure
Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) is a computer systems architecture that abstracts the compute, storage, and networking components of the architecture by using their software-defined functional equivalents
DRBD 9.2 Updates
The eight-week cadence brings the new DRBD releases 9.1.15 and 9.2.2. The two releases contain roughly the same bug fixes. What these bug fixes have in
Abstracting Persistent Storage Across Environments With LINBIT SDS
Kubernetes can be thought of as an infrastructure abstraction layer for on-premise and cloud computing. The applications you deploy into one cloud platform or on-premise
An Introduction to LINBIT SDS Management
As part of ongoing efforts to make LINBIT® software-defined storage (SDS) solutions better understood and more widely used, the LINSTOR® Users Guide has undergone a major change.
LINBIT SDS is now on Xinnor xiRAID
LINBIT SDS and xiRAID have proven to work exceptionally well together, and with LINBIT SDS now on Xinnor xiRAID, I wanted to cover the subject
