I’ve been spending a bit of time lately look at our Heptio Velero product, and how it works with various cloud native applications. Next application on my list is MongoDB, another NoSQL database. I looked at various deployment mechanisms for MongoDB, and it seems that using Helm Charts is the most popular approach. This led me to the Bitnami MongoDB Stack Chart GitHub Repo. At this point, I did spin my wheels a little trying to get MongoDB stood up. In this post, I’ll talk through some of the gotchas I encountered. Once again, my environment is vSphere 6.7 and…
A quick reference to Kubernetes, Containers and related posts Books Kubernetes for vSphere Administrators book – paper / kindle (released 14 July 2022) Posts VMware has a number of initiatives taking place in the Kubernetes space. Below you will find articles related to vSphere CSI/CNS, vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS), Kubernetes, Docker, and other VMware related container technologies, both past and present. Velero Revisited – Manually backing up VKS clusters using Velero A first look at VKSM Data Protection (VKSM DP) Using the VCF 9.x CLI to troubleshoot a DSM database running on VKS VCF 9.0 Volume Service – Consuming static…
A quick reference to vSAN content vSAN is VMware’s Hyper-converged Infrastructure (HCI) platform, offering both compute and distributed storage in a single solution. More recent updates include posts on Native Object Storage, currently available in “tech preview” with VCF version 9.1.1. Books vSAN 8.0 U1 Express Storage Architecture book – paper / kindle (released 25 April 2023) vSAN 7.0 U3 Deep Dive book – paper / kindle (released 09 May 2022) A link to the vSAN 6.7 U1 Deep Dive book Posts Using the VCF CLI with CCI context to create Native Object Storage Native Object Storage Use-Cases Bucket Policies…