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…
This video will show the power of the Gateway API in Data Services Manager (DSM) 2.0. The Gateway API is a Kubernetes API for the creation, modification, query and deletion of DSM objects. There are two personas related to the Gateway API, the infrastructure admin and the DSM admin/user. The video shows how to retrieve the Kubernetes configuration file (kubeconfig) for each of the personas. It also shows how to use the gateway API to create infrastructure components such as an IP Pool, a VM Class and an Infrastructure Policy. The gateway API is a great tool for those administrators…