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28 May 2020
What exactly are containers?
For some time now, a large part of the IT landscape has been talking only about “containers”, “microservices” and “Kubernetes.” But what exactly are containers and what technical basis are they based on? General Simply put, a container is an isolated runtime environment for processes. There are various areas that can be separated – the […]
04 May 2020
Apt.Postgresql.Org with Support for Arm64 and Ubuntu Focal
The apt.postgresql.org repository originally started with the two architectures amd64 and i386 (64- and 32-bit x64). In September 2016, ppc64el (POWER) was added. Over time, there have been repeated requests as to whether we might also support “arm”, which usually meant Raspberry Pi. However, these are mostly only 32-bit, and the widespread “armhf” Raspbian port […]
30 April 2020
tmate - Efficient remote maintenance and data sovereignty
Editor’s note, as of 2025-08-27: tmate.io and the tmate project have not been updated since fall 2019, so security vulnerabilities that may have arisen since then may not have been addressed. The tool is no longer recommended. Especially in the current situation surrounding COVID-19, a functioning remote maintenance/remote control solution is extremely important. It has […]
16 April 2020
Recover Data from Corrupt Tables in PostgreSQL®
PostgreSQL® is an extremely robust database, to which most of our clients also entrust their data. However, if errors do occur, they are usually due to the storage system, where individual bits or bytes flip, or entire blocks become corrupted. We demonstrate how to recover data from corrupt tables. In case of an error, the […]
31 March 2020
Podman - Run Container with User Permissions
In our previous article on Buildah, we explained how to create containers without Docker and root privileges. This article will focus on how to use those very containers without elevated privileges. Alongside the already mentioned Buildah and Skopeo, Podman is part of the Red Hat Container Tools and is, in short, a daemonless runtime environment […]
