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Over the past few years, microservice architectures and the cloud practices surrounding them have proliferated throughout the IT industry. As someone practicing IT in the

Block Storage and Open Source Developments since Nov 2001  In November 2021, we celebrated 20 years of LINBIT, and we wanted to take the opportunity

This blog post discusses the ‘Prometheus’ plugin, which implements a prometheus.io compatible metrics endpoint. But, first, for a more general introduction to ‘drbd-reactor,’ please read the overview blog

This blog post discusses the User Mode Helper (UMH) plugin. Read the overview blog post first for a more general introduction to drbd-reactor. Motivation Experienced DRBD® users

Reader Bootstrapping Amazon Web Services (AWS) is designed from the ground up with availability in mind. The geographical locations of their Availability Zones (AZs) are

Over time, LINBIT® has built a variety of software components for use in highly-available systems. These components range from DRBD® for block device replication to

When considering ‘Who needs high availability?’ ask the following question: is downtime unacceptable to your business? Do you work for an Enterprise company? Is access

IBM LinuxONE & LINBIT SDS Integration Benefits of the Integration Conclusion

Storage systems are almost unquestionably the most critical component of larger IT systems. Without storage systems operating normally, websites could serve outdated information, customers and

Overview Nomad is a simple and flexible workload orchestrator which deploys and manages containers and non-containerized applications. It does so across on-prem and clouds at

In this tutorial, I will show you how to use LINBIT SDS to orchestrate DRBD, bcache and ZFS in a stacked block storage layer. We

If we’ve learned anything over the past few years, it’s that in life, as well as business, it’s important to expect the unexpected. Business continuity

Open Source Block Storage for OpenNebula Clouds The LINBIT® OpenNebula TechDays was our mutual attempt to share our combined knowledge with the open source and

K3s is a very popular Kubernetes distribution from Rancher Labs designed to be both simple to set up and lightweight (in terms of system resources,

Introduction As the developers of DRBD®, LINBIT® has led the way in high availability since 2001. DRBD has been included in the Linux kernel since

My previous blog post described Virter, a tool for running virtual machines (VMs). This post will show how we use that to test our software