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21 July 2025
Automated Proxmox Subscription Handling with Ansible
Automated Proxmox Subscription Handling with Ansible When deploying Proxmox VE in enterprise environments, whether for new locations, expanding existing clusters, or migrating from platforms like VMware, automation becomes essential. These scenarios typically involve rolling out dozens or even hundreds of nodes across multiple sites. Manually activating subscriptions through the Proxmox web interface is not practical […]
04 July 2025
Swiss PostgreSQL Day 2025
On Thursday, 26 June and Friday, 27 June 2025, my colleague Patrick Lauer and I had the amazing opportunity to attend Swiss PGDay 2025, held at the OST Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences in Rapperswil. This two-day PostgreSQL conference featured two parallel tracks of presentations in English and German, bringing together users and experts […]
23 June 2025
Efficient Proxmox Cluster Deployment through Automation with Ansible and the proxmox_cluster Module
Efficient Proxmox Cluster Deployment through Automation with Ansible Manually setting up and managing servers is usually time-consuming, error-prone, and difficult to scale. This becomes especially evident during large-scale rollouts, when building complex infrastructures, or during the migration from other virtualization environments. In such cases, traditional manual processes quickly reach their limits. Consistent automation offers an […]
03 June 2025
Boldly Migrate to PostgreSQL - Introducing credativ-pg-migrator
Many companies these days are thinking about migrating their databases from legacy or proprietary system to PostgreSQL. The primary aim is to reduce costs, enhance capabilities, and ensure long-term sustainability. However, even just the idea of migrating to PostgreSQL can be overwhelming. Very often, knowledge about the legacy applications is limited or even lost. In […]
30 May 2025
Puppet Custom Types and Providers
Introduction Puppet is a software configuration management solution to manage IT infrastructure. One of the first things to be learnt about Puppet is its domain-specific language – the Puppet-DSL – and the concepts that come with it. Users can organize their code in classes and modules and use pre-defined resource types to manage resources like […]