I’m back home from Vancouver. What a great week – in every way. I’ll try to share a few highlights here. Updated Happiness Hints First and foremost: after many years, the Happiness Hints have received a major update! Before the conference, I updated the hints based on all the feedback...
When I was looking for a solution that could provide High Availability for two Datacenters, the only solution that remained viable and comprehensible for me was using Corosync/Pacemaker. The reason that I actually need this is, that Mainframe environments typically use two Datacenters, since z/OS...
During my works on Kubernetes on Linux on Z and the creation of https://github.com/azouhr/pgtwin, I came across the same issue that most admins have to solve in two-node clusters. How can I get quorum, and what node is to be the primary. While using additional techniques like providing a second...
in the previous blog pgtwin — HA PostgreSQL: VM Preparation we setup two VMs with KVM to prepare for a HA PostgreSQL setup. Now, we will configure the Corosync cluster engine, prepare PostgreSQL for synchronous streaming replication and finally configure Pacemaker to provide high availability....