GitLab High Availability With DRBD & Pacemaker
GitLab is a DevOps platform that many organizations and developers rely on around the clock, nearly every day of the year. You can install it as a self-managed, standalone web application, but a single instance is always a single point of failure. This article guides you through installing and configuring a highly available (HA) GitLab […]
Using Volume Group Snapshots with LINSTOR in Kubernetes
Version 2.10.0 of the LINSTOR® Operator for Kubernetes, developed by LINBIT®, introduces support for volume group snapshots, a feature that enables crash-consistent, point-in-time snapshots of multiple persistent volumes simultaneously. Kubernetes 1.36 promoted the VolumeGroupSnapshot API to General Availability (GA) under the groupsnapshot.storage.k8s.io/v1 API group. Before volume group snapshots, a Kubernetes operator could only take snapshots of one persistent […]
Becoming More Accessible to Windows Users
I have recently seen two internal presentations on LINBIT SDS for Windows. The first was about Hyper-V virtual machines running with their virtualized backing disks on WinDRBD, the VMs managed by drbd-reactor, and a live migration controlled by drbd-reactor. The second demonstration was about MS SQL Server Express, also running on a WinDRBD volume, and made […]
LINSTOR in OpenShift: A Red Hat Certified OperatorHub Offering
The LINSTOR® Operator for managing the LINSTOR life cycle in Kubernetes is a Red Hat certified offering available through the OperatorHub in the OpenShift Container Platform. An Operator is a Kubernetes pattern that uses Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs) and Kubernetes principles such as the control loop to automate tasks. You might think of an Operator […]
