Many of our customers have security policies in place which require all passwords to be rotated on a regular basis. Many of our customers are also looking at ways to automate this process, and avoid having to login via the DSM UI and update all of their database passwords manually. As you can imagine, doing this manually can be a very tedious task. Fortunately, there is way to automate this process via the DSM API for Postgres databases. In this post, I will demonstrate the steps involved to allow you to automate the changing of DSM provisioned database admin passwords…
One of the guiding goals for Data Services Manager (DSM) 2.0 is to provide a very rich Kubernetes compliant API server for end-users and developers. We refer to this as the Gateway API. In this post, I will demonstrate the Gateway API server’s capabilities and show how it can be used to query the state of the objects that are provisioned through DSM, and also how to modify and manipulate these objects. The kubectl command line interface is used. We will use this tool to query and modify some of the infrastructure components, as well as query the existing data…