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 also happens to be when I realized Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen became the new CEO at SUSE earlier this year. EQT acquired SUSE in 2018 and tried to profit by selling the shares piecemeal on the […]
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 create high-availability and high-performance block storage in their clusters. Whether you need highly available storage to back a database, website, virtual machine image hosting, or other storage use cases that you can imagine, this training […]
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. However, being open source and freely available doesn’t always mean it’s easily installed. Most of LINBIT’s software and solutions revolve around the DRBD® kernel module. Being a kernel module means […]
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 development was the Open Enterprise Linux Association announcing its founding by the initial members CIQ (Rocky Linux), Oracle, and SUSE. It is a place where these three organizations share what they consider the […]
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 available storage. If you are a LINBIT® customer, you can use a combination of container images from LINBIT and some publicly available container images, and then import them into a […]
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 like Alma-Linux and Rocky. The topic has inspired a recent article by John “maddog” Hall. Reading it took me nearly an hour. I like it. I might have gone with the […]
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 & Promoter. As Roland covered, DRBD® Reactor and its promoter plugin can be used to build simple high-availability (HA) failover clusters. Roland’s article includes an example with a single DRBD resource […]
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 a few days at a nice lake in southern Austria. We enjoyed hiking, some via ferratas, and climbing in the Dolomites in Italy. It was amazing seeing how quickly my […]
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 require that a LINSTOR cluster be configured before you’re able to install our respective driver and dynamically create replicated DRBD® volumes using said platform. While we at LINBIT are very […]
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 a Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9 two-node cluster. A Meeting of Industry Trusted Solutions Nagios XI is an industry standard for infrastructure monitoring and intelligence gathering. Nagios is installed […]
