LinuxFest Northwest 2017: Database Automation; Using PostgreSQL and Linux Containers
COURSE DESCRIPTION: Automation is THE big thing these days. Software delivery and infrastructure changes in regards to provisioning, creating and tearing down servers, is no longer a niche activity for only the largest and most complex networks. Nowadays, everybody is racing to automate their environments and achieving an ever faster DEV-QA-PRODUCTION Life-Cycle. Better than ordinary application containers, OS containers are the best way to manage your PostgreSQL servers.
SYLLABUS/AGENDA: This talk describes and walks through the installation of the following technologies:
The ZFS file system
The Linux Container infrastructure
Example containers i.e. Debian, Centos, Ubuntu etc
The PostgreSQL RDBMS
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: We will demonstrate how easy PostgreSQL DBA tasks become in a virtual/cloud environment, including:
Provisioning
Replication
Standby Servers
Backups
Snapshots
Upgrades (binary and cluster)
Rollbacks
WHO WILL GAIN THE MOST FROM THIS TRAINING:
DEVOPS,
Systems administrators,
Full stack developer(s),
Managers/team leaders
PREREQUISITES FOR THIS COURSE:
DBA stuff (of course)
Systems Administration (know your linux, be comfortable on the command line)
Be comfortable compiling source code