Few words about the project ————————————- ITGix is proud to partner up with StorPool Storage to deliver a project of a live on-premise Kubernetes cluster using StorPool software as persistent storage. The project aims to demonstrate the high compatibility of StorPool Storage allowing it to be integrated into the same computational nodes running Kubernetes while also showing a high […]
This year оur team attended the Fintech and InsureTech Summit in Sofia to further understand the challenges that our clients from the Fintech industry are facing, keeping up with all of the trends in the digital area. It is of utmost importance for us to understand the needs and desires of our clients, to be […]
Basics of Ansible 1.1. What is Ansible 1.2. Why do we need Ansible? 1.3. What are the advantages of using Ansible? 1.4. How to install Ansible? 2. Inventory Setup 2.1. Adding ranges of hosts 2.2. Adding variables to inventory 2.3. Alias 2.4. Assigning a variable to many machines: group variables 2.5. Inheriting variable values: group […]
ITGix is now an official Oracle supplier. Organizations worldwide are increasingly turning to the cloud. From the planning stage through implementation, enterprises are looking for the best software, applications, and services for a smooth transition to ensure ongoing success. They are willingly taking the initiative to migrate smarter and faster. Today comprehensive cloud management has become a […]
The Icinga2 configuration options are rich and provide you with a lot of ways to re-use what you already have. They serve well, but once your monitoring becomes big enough they just don’t cut it anymore. Reducing the load on the monitoring hosts and the servers you check becomes a high priority. One way to […]
This is the first post of a mini-series dedicated to running Kubernetes hosted on AWS. The first post will be about the considerations we have made when proposing a production-ready and Enterprise-grade Kubernetes environment to our clients. I will go more technical, with the tools and AWS services we are using, in the next blog post, […]
This tutorial explains how to set-up the check_oracle_health script (credits to Gerhard Lausser) to work on your Nagios environment on CentOS (or any RedHat-based Linux). This Nagios plugin allows monitoring many oracle DB parameters – like tablespaces size, session, process count, SGA pool, etc. Check it out on the author’s web set.The hardest part of […]
WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF A TOOL LIKE SALTSTACK AND A BETTER QUESTION, WHAT PROBLEM DOES IT SOLVE? The two main purposes of SaltStack are configuration management and remote execution. You have probably heard or used one of the more popular alternatives of SaltStack – Ansible, Puppet, or Chef. All of them pretty much accomplish the same goal. I like Salt […]
Since you are here, you have probably heard of Docker. When you search it in Google the first result is: “Docker – Build, Ship, and Run Any App, Anywhere” – don’t believe me, try it yourself. That sounds great but in the means of Privacy and protecting your intellectual property, it doesn’t. This is because […]
The Icinga2 configuration options are rich and provide you with a lot of ways to re-use what you already have. They serve well, but once your monitoring becomes big enough they just don’t cut it anymore. Reducing the load on the monitoring hosts and the servers you check becomes a high priority. One way to […]