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Hopefully Helpful Hints // Mike J McGuire

No one was arguing whether the glass was half empty or whether the glass was half full, only that the glass was either too big for the requirement, or that the materials estimate for the wine was incomplete.

Tag: kubernetes

Written by Mike J McGuireFebruary 22, 2020February 22, 2020

Utility Containers with Red Hat Universal Base Image

Howard: “So, you think I’m one of the smarter kids?” Sheldon: “No, you’re a tool I was using to make my point.” There’s a basic utility container/tool kit that I’ve used in the past when troubleshooting in a Kubernetes or docker environment which is based on Ubuntu. The Dockerfile is available here if you’d like […]

Written by Mike J McGuireDecember 3, 2019September 2, 2020

Couldn’t start a Stolon PostgreSQL Kubernetes StatefulSet

I was troubleshooting a Stolon PostgreSQL deployment on a Kubernetes cluster recently – there’d been an outage on the cluster, and the stolon pods wouldn’t restart. Specifically, the keeper component would not start. Stolon uses sentinel nodes, proxy nodes and keeper nodes. The sentinels and proxies were starting, but the keepers were not. The keeper-0 […]

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