Intro Array-based snapshots are one of the most powerful features in a database administrator’s toolkit. Once a DBA gets a taste of the speed and simplicity of cloning a database without actually moving any of its bytes, they scream “Great Scott!”, grow white hair, and pace around with a frantic Doc-Brown energy their manager finds […]
Category: OpenShift
The Unofficial Beginner’s Guide to OpenShift Virtualization with iSCSI and Pure FlashArray
Intro If the post-Broadcom migration was a prism splitting white light into a spectrum of options, a bright red ray of light would be Red Hat, battle-tested in the enterprise grade linux operating system now moving into the infrastructure platform space. While it might not have the exotic appeal of NVMe/TCP, iSCSI has earned its […]
Wiring Active Directory into OpenShift Without Losing Your Mind
There is a special kind of chaos that appears the moment someone says, “Can we just hook OpenShift up to Active Directory?” On paper, it sounds simple. In practice, it usually means certificates, bind accounts, LDAP filters, group mappings, and at least one moment where you stare at the authentication operator wondering if it is […]
Configuring the Portworx Operator to use Multiple FlashArrays on OpenShift
Journey into the Jungle You’ve just hacked your way into a new, uncharted OpenShift jungle. It’s humid, foreign, and has a faint, lingering scent… “is that the smell of an old used hat?” you think to yourself, “Or perhaps just the musk of a thousand unoptimized containers?” You wipe the sweat from your brow, your […]
Beginner’s Guide to OpenShift Virtualization with NVMe-TCP Pure FlashArray
Intro Back in early 2024, most of us assumed the post-Broadcom migration would look like the flow of the Columbia River into the Pacific Ocean: a massive, singular current of users moving predictably from one giant ecosystem into another. We expected one “winner” to catch the wide swath of people exiting the VMware stage. Instead, […]