PostmarketOS’s Stance Has Some Parallels with Luddism
We continue to adopt Claude Code for our software work. Since I switched from Opus 4.5 to the 4.6 model, it feels even better. It is an awesome tool that fundamentally changes the world of software development. Recently, the PostmarketOS open-source project published a statement on contributing and AI. It discourages the use of AI tools, […]
Production-ready High Availability for Proxmox VE with LINSTOR
Proxmox VE is an open source platform for running and managing KVM virtual machines (VMs) and LXC containers. For an overview of the Proxmox VE platform and how it compares to other open source virtualization management platforms, you can read “Comparing Open Source Virtualization Platforms” on the LINBIT® blog. A cornerstone of Proxmox VE design is simplicity […]
Highly Available NFS for Proxmox With LINSTOR Gateway
Attaching an NFS share to your Proxmox cluster is a convenient way to add reliable storage for backups, ISO images, container templates, and more. If LINSTOR® is already an integral part of your Proxmox cluster, LINSTOR Gateway makes it easy to create highly available NFS exports for Proxmox. In a recent video, we covered 10 Things […]
Create a Highly Available iSCSI Target Using a LINSTOR Gateway Cluster
This tutorial will teach you how to set up a highly available iSCSI target by using LINSTOR® Gateway. Here is the ideal starting point to help you get off the ground as a new LINSTOR Gateway user. The basic principles from this tutorial also apply to using LINSTOR Gateway to set up NVMe-oF or NFS […]
Disaster Recovery With RustFS & LINSTOR in Kubernetes
Introduction RustFS is an open source S3-compatible storage system written in Rust. Version 1.0.0 was released through GitHub in July 2025. The software is still tagged as in an alpha state but with changes in the open source S3 object storage landscape, the project has been building interest and attraction. Because LINSTOR® can ship and […]
Using minikube to Get Started With LINSTOR in Kubernetes
This article gives you step-by-step instructions for setting up a minikube virtual machine (VM) environment for testing and exploring LINSTOR® in Kubernetes. minikube is a local Kubernetes environment on a single host machine that people often use to get up and running quickly, usually for testing or proof-of-concept purposes. Because installing and setting up minikube […]
Kubernetes Roundup – Software News & Resource Updates
LINSTOR Operator 2.10.4 updates the LINSTOR CSI image to 1.10.5 to be compatible with LINSTOR 1.33. We have intentionally not updated the LINSTOR version itself to the latest 1.33.1, as that is left for the next feature release of our Operator. See the full changelog here – https://forums.linbit.com/t/linstor-operator-2-10-4/1135 As you may know, the release of […]
Agentic Coding
As this is my first newsletter of 2026, I would like to wish you all a Happy New Year! For me, this year will be the Year of AI. For the first time in my 25-year career in the IT industry, I feel this year I will change the way I write software. Over the past […]
Using the LINSTOR Python API to Interface with LINSTOR Clusters in Kubernetes
Introduction to the LINSTOR APIs One of the most notable but easily overlooked features in LINSTOR® is its REST API. Typically, LINSTOR users interact with their LINSTOR clusters by using the LINSTOR command line client utility (also known as the linstor-client) to perform administrative tasks. These tasks include operations such as adding LINSTOR satellite nodes to a cluster […]
Software Roadmap News
This week, I want to share an update on LINBIT’s GUI for LINSTOR clusters. Since the recently released version 2.0, it nicely embeds Grapha graphs of Prometheus metrics in two places: in the node view and at the resource details. Prometheus/Graphana has become very popular in open-source metrics monitoring, so it makes sense to integrate […]
