AWS Outage & LINBIT Software Updates for Kubernetes
We recently witnessed an AWS outage. I then saw an article that called for European digital sovereignty in the context of the outage, but those are two different concepts. To be safe from an outage in a single zone of a cloud provider, treat it as a failure domain. You protect yourself with data replication […]
LINBIT CEO & Developers to Present at CloudStack and Kubernetes Focused Conferences
Members of the LINBIT® team will speak at upcoming conferences, focused around cloud, virtualization, containerization, and orchestration technologies. LINBIT CEO and DRBD® creator, Philipp Reisner, and LINSTOR® for CloudStack lead developer, Rene Peinthor, will each present at the 2025 CloudStack Collaboration Conference, 19-21 November, in Milan, Italy. LINSTOR for Kubernetes lead developer, Moritz Wanzenböck, will […]
Fraudsters & Technology
AI technologies are changing our world quickly. Of course, fraudsters also adopt these technologies and create increasingly sophisticated CFO scams. Recently, my CFO shared an email he received, supposedly from me, that showed a convincing conversation I supposedly had with a third party, concluding that my CFO should initiate a wire transfer. This time, it […]
Reduce Contractual Risk with Open-Source Software
In a recent conversation with Doug Milburn, CEO of 45Drives, I picked up the term ‘contractual risk’. You add to the contractual risk of your organisation every time you deploy a proprietary software solution. Proprietary software comes with a license that grants you the right to use it after you pay for it. But perpetual licenses […]
Configuring Highly Available NVMe-oF Attached Storage in Proxmox VE
LINBIT® develops and supports software used to build high availability clusters for almost any application or platform out there. It does this by creating tools and frameworks that can be used in generic ways that can be used by most applications, rather than building application-specific products that might only work for a single application. While […]
Project Updates & New Features
I will use this newsletter edition to share progress on projects that we will release soon. The first one the team has been working on is adding ReadWriteMany (RWX) support for persistent volumes in Kubernetes to our LINBIT SDS offering. Before enabling this on all your persistent volumes in Kubernetes, you need to understand what […]
Backing up and Restoring Kubernetes Workloads by Using CloudCasa with LINSTOR
This article overviews some of the features and benefits of using the CloudCasa™ data protection platform for Kubernetes with a LINSTOR® deployment in Kubernetes, and provides step-by-step instructions for getting started. Because the CloudCasa agent in Kubernetes can interface with a CSI-compliant storage driver, such as LINSTOR or Piraeus Datastore, backing up and restoring with […]
Creating SUSE Harvester Persistent Storage with HA & DR Capability by Using LINSTOR
SUSE Harvester is an open source hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) virtualization management platform, built on top of Rancher, the SUSE-developed management platform for Kubernetes. Harvester deployments typically use Longhorn for persistent storage, but because you can also use Container Storage Interface (CSI) compliant storage systems, LINSTOR® is an option. This article will provide an overview of […]
Seamlessly Migrating Applications Between Federated Kubernetes Clusters with LINSTOR
Matt Kereczman, Solutions Architect at LINBIT Björn Kraus, Chief Technical Officer at PHOENIX MEDIA Björn is CTO at an Adobe Commerce Solution Partner in Germany, where he leads the engineering team with a strong focus on Kubernetes and cloud-native infrastructure. A Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), he has established a DevOps culture and introduced GitOps workflows to […]
An Open-Source Alternative to VMware
I can now share the video link to our Q2 Community Meeting, ‘Build Resilient Architectures with LINBIT SDS & Oracle Virtualization,’ which we hosted alongside our partners, Oracle. After Marcos Sungaila from Oracle spoke, I presented the LINBIT angle before Ryan on the US side at LINBIT guided the viewers through a live demo. Fate was […]
