Tag: Linux

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. Upgrading one’s operating system to new major version is an important system maintenance task and it’s usually a good thing. It brings new features, security improvements, access to newer packages and so on. Sometimes it doesn’t go that smoothly, for example the updated system will refuse to start. But upgrading the OS running a Postgres cluster and involving a glibc library version update, or migrating a database to another machine running another OS (and glibc) version poses a little known, but very significant risk… The disease The technical reasons behind the problem are very well explained in ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon EC2 now supports Hibernation for On-Demand Nitro-based instances running Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) version 8, CentOS version 8, and Fedora version 34 onwards. Hibernation allows you to pause your EC2 Instances and resume them at a later time, rather than fully terminating and restarting them. Resuming your instance lets your applications continue from where they left off so that you don’t have to restart your OS and application from scratch. Hibernation is useful for cases where rebuilding application state is time-consuming (e.g., developer desktops) or an application’s start-up steps can be prepared in advance of ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Codership; Since we just released Galera Manager, it seemed like a good idea to do a deployment on Amazon Web Services (AWS) using Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 and MySQL 8. We start by launching an EC2 instance and choosing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 (HVM) and most importantly, we only choose the 64-bit (x86) architecture as we do not support ARM just yet. We choose a t2.micro instance for Galera Manager since this is just a test instance, but it is well worth knowing that 10GB which is the default EBS size may be a ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Dave Stokes;     There will be a MySQL tract at the Southern California Linux Expo 19x (SCaLE)  March 3-6, 2022 in Pasadena, California.   I will organizing the track and the first part of that is asking you to submit talks for the MySQL track.  We needs talks for novices, we need talks for the advanced, and we need talks for those in between!  November 20th, 2021 is the deadline for abstracts/proposals submissions.      SCaLE is the largest Linux show in Southern California and not only has amazing talks on anything open source but the expo hall is not to ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Today, we are excited to announce that Amazon SageMaker notebook instance supports Amazon Linux 2. You can now choose Amazon Linux 2 for your new Amazon SageMaker notebook instance to take advantage of the latest update and support provided by Amazon Linux 2. Amazon SageMaker notebook instances are fully managed Jupyter Notebooks with pre-configured development environments for data science and machine learning. Data scientists and developers can spin up SageMaker Notebooks to interactively explore, visualize and prepare data, and build and deploy models on SageMaker. This launch rolls out AL2 AMI option for users on SageMaker notebook ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Robin Barber; When it comes to keeping data safe, there are two main solutions: local storage and online backups (although for the best of both worlds, you should follow the 3-2-1 rule). However, just because it’s a good idea to make extra backups doesn’t make it easy. In this article, we’ll show you how to backup an external hard drive to another drive and the cloud.  Key Takeaways: You should always keep local and online versions of your files.Backup providers like IDrive are great for creating both local and online backups.Cloud storage can also be used to ... Read More

Feed: AWS Compute Blog. Author: Emma White. This post is written by Kumar Abhinav, Sr. Product Manager EC2, and David Duncan, Principal Solution Architect.  Customers now have access to AWS license-included Amazon Machine Images (AMI) for hosting their SQL Server workloads with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). With these AMIs, customers can easily build highly available, reliable, and performant Microsoft SQL Server 2017 and 2019 clusters with RHEL 7 and 8, with a simple pay-as-you-go pricing model that doesn’t require long-term commitments or upfront costs. By switching from Windows Server to RHEL to run SQL Server workloads, customers can reduce ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Today we are announcing the availability of AWS provided License included Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) with Microsoft SQL Server Amazon Machine Images (AMI). Customers can now combine the scale, performance, and elasticity of Amazon EC2 with consistency, reliability, and high performance of Microsoft SQL Server on RHEL to deploy mission critical transactional systems and data warehouses. RHEL with SQL Server is available for RHEL 8 and RHEL 7 with High Availability add on in the Amazon EC2 console. With the launch of RHEL AMIs with SQL Server, customers can now choose among Amazon Linux, Ubuntu, Windows, ... Read More

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. In December 2020, you might have seen an article from CentOS about shifting their focus towards CentOS stream, which is the upstream version of the RHEL. CentOS also mentioned that the version 8 would be EOL (end of life) by the end of the 2021. This means that it will no longer receive any updated fixes from it's upstream version of RHEL. A few days after this announcement, Rocky Linux was announced by the CentOS founder, Gregory Kurtzeras, as a 100% bug-for-bug compatible with RHEL. The Rocky Linux project quickly gained so much of attention, and also ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: MySQL Performance Blog; With the CentOS project switching its focus to CentOS Stream, one of the alternatives that aim to function as a downstream build (building and releasing packages after they’re released by Red Hat) is Rocky Linux. This how-to shows how to install Percona Server for MySQL 8.0 on the Rocky Linux distribution. You can get the information on the distribution release version by checking the /etc/redhat-release file: [root@rocky ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release Rocky Linux release 8.4 (Green Obsidian) [root@rocky ~]# cat /etc/redhat-releaseRocky Linux release 8.4 (Green Obsidian) Installing and Setting up the Percona ... Read More