Encrypted Replication With DRBD
With the arrival of DRBD® 9.2.6, replication traffic can now be encrypted by the Linux kernel. DRBD is now able to use in-kernel TLS acceleration (kTLS), which has been fully implemented since the release of Linux kernel version 4.17. LINBIT® developer Moritz Wanzenböck initially demoed the new feature during our recent community meeting. While it has […]
Experience the LINBIT Storage Day Webinars
While keeping up with news from our industry, it caught my attention that among EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) users, servers running Rocky Linux have overtaken the others (RHEL, AlmaLinux, OracleLinux). While that may be an interesting fact, it might generate the impression that Rocky is more relevant than RHEL. However, this notion requires […]
Multisite Data Replication Over a WAN for Disaster Recovery
LINBIT® and many other organizations that specialize in high-availability (HA) solutions use and support the cluster manager Pacemaker. Pacemaker, when properly configured, does a great job at maintaining high availability for services, applications, and other resources within a single-site cluster on a LAN. However, as robust a solution as Pacemaker is, it was never designed […]
Configuring Multipath iSCSI Targets in Pacemaker for Higher Availability
LINBIT® has been building and supporting high-availability (HA) iSCSI clusters using DRBD® and Pacemaker for over a decade. In fact, that was the very first HA cluster I built for a client when I started working at LINBIT as a support engineer back in 2014. Searching the Internet for HA iSCSI Pacemaker clusters will return […]
What the New European Cyber Resilience Act Means for the Open Source Industry
In community news, the European Cyber Resilience Act will have a massive impact on Open Source projects and Open Source businesses. The intention is to impose mandatory security requirements on everyone delivering/supplying the software. That by itself is a noble goal. However, it is slightly in contrast to what Open Source licenses do. Open Source licenses limit […]
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” of the network. This reduces latency and removes Internet connectivity as a point of failure for users of edge services. Since more hardware is involved in an edge computing environment than there is in a […]
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 […]
