In cases where we can’t use the built-in PostgreSQL replication facility, like for example Confluence DB which has replication protection, Bucardo is very efficient option. It is an asynchronous PostgreSQL replication system, allowing for both multi-master and multi-slave operations. Bucardo…
The plan is to create 2 resources in Primary/Primary mode. The first one r0 will be used to store disk images for VM’s running on proxmox01 and r1 for the VM’s running on proxmox02. This way we can easily recover…
To be able to move VM’s from one cluster member to another their root, and in fact any other attached disk, needs to be created on a shared storage. PVE has built in support for the native GlusterFS client among…
The motivation for creating this setup is the possibility of having Encompass private virtualization cloud deployed in any third party infrastructure provider DC, like for example SoftLayer that we already use to host our product on Bare-Metal serves. The solution…
Duplicity is a tool for creating bandwidth-efficient, incremental, encrypted backups. It backs directories by producing encrypted tar-format volumes and uploading them to a remote or local file server. And because duplicity uses librsync, the incremental archives are space efficient and…
Terraform is a tool for automating infrastructure management. It can be used for a simple task like managing single application instance or more complex ones like managing entire datacenter or virtual cloud. The infrastructure Terraform can manage includes low-level components…
The following setup of iSCSI shared storage on cluster of OmniOS servers was later used as ZFS over iSCSI storage in Proxmox PVE, see Adding ZFS over iSCSI shared storage to Proxmox. It was inspired by the excellent work from…
Just something I dug out in the Terraform forum and would like to keep as a reminder for the future. Terraform will not allow us to do something like this: variable project_name { default = “ane” } variable some_name {…
SoftLayer is IBM company providing cloud and Bare-Metal hosting services. We are going to setup a cluster of Pacemaker, DRBD and GFS2 on couple of Bare-Metal servers to host our Encompass services. This will provide high availability of the shared…
Tomcat9 brings bunch of new features of which support for HTTP/2 and multiple certificates per Virtual Host via SNI extension are most important ones. This needs Java 1.8, the latest APR/TC (Tomcat Native) release 1.2.x, since SNI support in current…