We’ve all been there: an alert fires at 2:00 AM. In the old days, you’d manually grep logs across half a dozen systems. Today, modern observability tools are already very good at connecting the dots – using automated root cause analysis to tell us which microservice caused a latency spike. But connecting the dots isn’t […]
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Installing WSL on Windows (EC2 and VMware VMs)
The way WSL works depends on where Windows is running. In practice, most setups fall into one of these two categories: The installation steps are similar, but the WSL version is different. Installing WSL on Windows running on EC2 Windows on EC2 does not support nested virtualization, so WSL 2 cannot be used. On EC2, […]
What is kro? Simplifying Kubernetes Deployments
What is kro? Kube Resource Orchestrator (kro) is a Kubernetes-native operator designed to simplify the creation and management of complex resource configurations. It allows users to define ResourceGraphDefinitions, which group multiple Kubernetes resources and their relationships into a single unit. Once applied, kro translates these definitions into actual Kubernetes resources and manages them dynamically. […]
Enhancing Resilience in OpenShift 4.17: Exploring the 3+2 Control Plane Architecture for On-Prem Deployments
Introduction On-premises OpenShift deployments, especially on platforms like vSphere, often grapple with maintaining cluster quorum in the face of data center failures. To address this, OpenShift 4.17 introduces the 3+2 control plane architecture, a five-node configuration designed to enhance resilience and simplify deployment in multi-failure-domain environments. Challenges with Traditional Three-Node Control Planes Deploying a three-node […]
Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift & IBM Instana
I often get questions around Red Hat OpenShift, and why we need it. Here is a quick 14 mins video to explain Application deployment models from Traditional deployments to Virtual machines to Containers. Here are the topics we are going to cover in this video. I would really recommend this video, especially to sales team […]
How to run a program as a different user using runas
Using runas command to run an exe with a different user. Many times we will need a program to be run as a different login account than the one we used to login to the server. We can achieve that using runas command as shown below. Open a command prompt and run the following command. […]
Connect to SQL Server with out a password
Steps to connect to your SQL Server and reset the sa password with out having permissions. You can recover your sa password, or this can be used to connect to any sql server instance your ex DBAs left you with out providing you the necessary permissions or credentials. First you have to shutdown your SQL […]
How to start SQL Server in Single user mode
Detailed steps to start a SQL Server instance in Single User mode. Also how to connect to the single user mode sql server instance using SQLCMD. Open SQL Server Configuration manager from your start menu 2. You can see the names of the SQL Server services. In this case I need to start the 1st […]
How to move msdb database files in SQL Server
Detailed steps on how to move msdb database files (mdf and ldf) from one location to another. This change requires a restart of your SQL Server Instance, so make sure to do this during a maintenance window. First find the msdb database files location which we want to move. To do that, execute the following […]
How to move master database files in SQL Server
Detailed steps on how to move master database files (mdf and ldf) from one location to another. This change requires a restart of your SQL Server Instance, so make sure to do this during a maintenance window. Open your SQL Server Configuration Manager 2. Right click on the SQL Server Instance -> select Properties 3. […]