Container Orchestration

Software-Defined Distributed Storage for Kubernetes with Ceph

Ceph, Cloud Storage, Clustered Filesystem, Container Orchestration, Encryption At-Rest, Kubernetes, NetApp ONTAP, NextCloud, NFS, Object Storage, Persistent Storage

Clustered filesystems are an essential component of scale-out, distributed systems, such as applications hosted on a Kubernetes cluster. They provide storage volumes which can be written to by multiple pods across multiple Kubernetes nodes simultaneously. Even if a storage device…

Kuberenetes RWX persistent volumes with Rook Ceph storage orchestrator

Clustered ReadWriteMany Filesystems for Kubernetes Persistent Volumes

Cloud Infrastructure

Ceph, Cloud Storage, Clustered Filesystem, Container Orchestration, Encryption At-Rest, Kubernetes, NetApp ONTAP, NextCloud, NFS, Object Storage, OpenZFS, Persistent Storage, TrueNAS

Many applications you might wish to deploy on a Kubernetes cluster require persistent storage in the form of PVCs (persistent volume claims) and PVs (persistent volumes). As the lifetime of a pod is ephemeral, and app data is not normally…

Deploy n8n with Docker Compose for Automating AI Workflows

AI Infrastructure

AI as a Service, Container Orchestration, Data Pipelines, Docker, Locally Hosted AI, n8n, Open Source AI, Retrieval Augmented Generation, Self Hosted AI, Vector Databases

n8n is a data integration & workflow automation tool that can be self hosted on your own infrastructure. Compared to cloud-based automation platforms such as Zapier, Integromat, Make, or the cloud version of n8n, self hosting has two major benefits.…

Open WebUI + Ollama with Azure Kubernetes Service & Ingress TLS

AI Infrastructure

Azure, ChatGPT Alternative, CloudFlare, Container Orchestration, Kubernetes, Load Balancing, Locally Hosted AI, Ollama, Open Source AI, Private AI, SSL Certificates

Open WebUI is a fork of LibreChat, an open source AI chat platform that we have extensively discussed on our blog and integrated on behalf of clients. Where LibreChat integrates with any well-known remote or local AI service on the…

GPU Inference with Ollama or TGI on Google Cloud

AI Infrastructure

Container Orchestration, GenAI, Generative AI, GPUs, Locally Hosted AI, NVIDIA CUDA, Ollama

GPUs increase the speed of LLM inference and embedding by an average of an order of magnitude or more, enabling a model to generate tokens as quickly as a user can read. As a typical reading speed is two to…

Set up a Mongo Replica Set with Docker

Cloud Infrastructure

Container Orchestration, Database Administration, Docker

MongoDB is a popular NoSQL database for “cloud native” applications that don’t require the strict consistency guarantees of ACID-compliant DBMS such as MySQL or Postgres. ACID-compliant DBMS rely on a transactional model to acknowledge that each CRUD operation (Create, Read,…

A First Look at Portainer for Kubernetes

Cloud Infrastructure

Container Orchestration, Kubernetes, Portainer

For a long time, Portainer has been a Docker Swarm native tool, but that is about to change. Coming in Portainer 2.0, Portainer will support managing Kubernetes clusters from its graphical dashboard. Managed Kubernetes services from popular cloud providers including…

GlusterFS for Persistent Docker Volumes

Cloud Infrastructure

Container Orchestration, Docker, GlusterFS, Persistent Storage

Notice: GlusterFS is reaching End of Life at the end of 2024. It will no longer receive maintenance or security updates. We recommend considering Rook Ceph, a Kubernetes-native container storage orchestrator instead. GlusterFS is a distributed file system that can…

Using LXC/LXD Containers with HAProxy

Cloud Infrastructure

Container Orchestration, HAProxy, LXC/LXD

LXC/LXD containers are a lightweight virtualization technology that allows running multiple operating systems on a single Linux system simultaneously. Much like Docker, the host machine’s kernel is shared between the containers with namespaces and cgroups. In the early days of…

Hosting Multiple Mautic Instances with Linux Containers

Open Source Apps

Container Orchestration, Docker, LXC/LXD, Mautic

Agencies who need to host multiple Mautic instances for their clients have plenty of options for multi-tenant Mautic server architecture, so which one should you choose? Having no licensing cost as an open source product, Mautic is an attractive choice…

Persistent Storage for Docker Swarms with REX-Ray

Cloud Infrastructure

Container Orchestration, Docker, Persistent Storage

Contact a Container Storage ExpertREX-Ray is an open source storage driver developed with the support of Dell EMC, enabling cloud-native workloads to read & write from flexible, block storage. It has two main components, the libstorage framework, which serves as…