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Using Cassandra Operator with Openshift 4.x
I’ve been running Cassandra on Openshift for some time now through a homebrew stateful set, but it’s a tedious process, and prone to failures. Naturally one of the first things I tried with OpenShift 4.x is to make use of Instaclustr Cassandra Operator to automate the provisioning of Cassandra clusters. Deployment Just follow the instructions for how to Deploy the Operator. First deploy the custom resource descriptors: ❯ oc apply -f deploy/crds.
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Openshift 4.x UPI on vSphere using Terraform
Installing OpenShift 4.x has become massively easier and more straightforward after the CoreOS acquisition from RedHat and the inclusion of CoreOS RHCOS in the list of supported OSes. vSphere has also been a supported platform for deployment since the initial versions, but up until 4.5 it has required a number of manual steps in order to complete the installation. Turns out complaints of RedHat customers running vSphere have led to Redhat offering an installer-provisioned infrastructure (aka IPI), starting with v4.
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Setting up Hugo for GitHub hosting
I’ve been meaning to setup a technical blog as the place to publish some of the notes I’ve been traditionally gathering in Evernote notebooks. I’m also a huge fan of Inception. So here are the steps you need to take in order to use Hugo to publish a technical blog on GitHub pages. Why Hugo? Hugo recently came up on my Twitter feed (which also kickstarted my latest attempt on public technical blogging).
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