Articles published in 2017

Notes after Katacoda Training on Kubernetes Container Orchestration

Notes after Katacoda Training on Kubernetes Container Orchestration

Categories: Containers Orchestration, Learning | Tags: Helm, Ingress, Kubeadm, CNI, Micro Services, Minikube, Kubernetes, Redis, SSL/TLS, Storage, YAML

A few weeks ago, I dedicated two days to follow the turorials available on Katacoda, the interactive learning platform for Kubernetes or any other container orchestration platform. I’m sharing my…

David WORMS

By David WORMS

Dec 14, 2017

Scaling massive, real-time data pipelines with Go

Scaling massive, real-time data pipelines with Go

Categories: Open Source Summit Europe 2017, Learning | Tags: Algorithm, Data structures, Go Lang, Pipeline, Protocols, Network

Last week at the Open Source Summit in Prague, Jean de Klerk held a talk called Scaling massive, real-time data pipelines with Go. This article goes over the main points of the talk, detailing the…

Arthur BUSSER

By Arthur BUSSER

Nov 21, 2017

Mesos Introduction

Mesos Introduction

Categories: Containers Orchestration, Open Source Summit Europe 2017 | Tags: Mesos, GPU, Container Orchestration, CUDA, Data Science, Docker

Apache Mesos is an open source cluster management project designed to implement and optimize distributed systems. Mesos enables the management and sharing of resources in a fine and dynamic way…

Louis BIANCHERIN

By Louis BIANCHERIN

Nov 15, 2017

Micro Services

Micro Services

Categories: Cloud Computing, Containers Orchestration, Open Source Summit Europe 2017 | Tags: Mesos, CNCF, DNS, Encryption, gRPC, Istio, Linkerd, Micro Services, MITM, Service Mesh, Kubernetes, Proxy, SPOF, SSL/TLS

Back in the days, applications were monolithic and we could use an IP address to access a service. With virtual machines (VM), multiple hosts started to appear on the same machine with multiple apps…

David WORMS

By David WORMS

Nov 14, 2017

Lightweight containerization with Tupperware

Lightweight containerization with Tupperware

Categories: Containers Orchestration, Open Source Summit Europe 2017, Infrastructure | Tags: Btrfs, LXD, Red Hat, Systemd, Zookeeper, Cloud, Consensus

In this article, I will present lightweight containerization set up by Facebook called Tupperware. What is Tupperware Tupperware is a homemade framework written and used internally at Facebook…

Lucas BAKALIAN

By Lucas BAKALIAN

Nov 3, 2017

Multi-Repo, Multi-Node Gating at Massive Scale

Multi-Repo, Multi-Node Gating at Massive Scale

Categories: Cloud Computing, DevOps & SRE, Open Source Summit Europe 2017 | Tags: Infrastructure, Jenkins, Red Hat, Zuul, Ansible, CI/CD, IaC, OpenStack

This is a recap and personal review of Monty Taylor’s presentation of OpenStack’s Continuous Integration tool Zuul at the OpenSource Summit 2017 in Prague (not to mix with Netflix’ Zuul project…

Joris RUMMENS

By Joris RUMMENS

Oct 28, 2017

Kubernetes Storage Primitives for Stateful Workloads

Kubernetes Storage Primitives for Stateful Workloads

Categories: Cloud Computing, Containers Orchestration, Open Source Summit Europe 2017 | Tags: Container Storage Interface (CSI), PVC, Azure, Docker, GCE, Kubernetes, Storage

This article is based on the presentation “Introduction to Kubernetes Storage Primitives for Stateful Workloads” from the OSS Convention Prague 2017 by the {Code} team. So, let’s start, what is…

Pierre SAUVAGE

By Pierre SAUVAGE

Oct 28, 2017

Apache Thrift vs REST

Apache Thrift vs REST

Categories: DevOps & SRE, Open Source Summit Europe 2017 | Tags: Thrift, gRPC, HTTP, JavaScript Object Notation (JSON), REST

Adaltas recently attended the Open Source Summit Europe 2017 in Prague. I had the opportunity to follow a presentation made by Randy Abernethy and Jens Geyer of RM-X, a cloud native consulting company…

Leo SCHOUKROUN

By Leo SCHOUKROUN

Oct 28, 2017

Kubernetes 1.8

Kubernetes 1.8

Categories: Containers Orchestration, Open Source Summit Europe 2017 | Tags: containerd, CRD, OCI, RBAC, Kubernetes, Network, Release and features, Storage

The 1.8 release of Kubernetes brings a lot of new things. With 2500+ pull request, 2000+ commits, 400+ commiters, Kubernetes added 39 new features in this version. This is the richest release in terms…

Younes YASSINE

By Younes YASSINE

Oct 24, 2017

From Dockerfile to Ansible Containers

From Dockerfile to Ansible Containers

Categories: Containers Orchestration, DevOps & SRE, Open Source Summit Europe 2017 | Tags: pip, Shell, Ansible, Docker, Docker Compose, IaC, Python, YAML

This talk was an introduction to the Dockerfile format and to Ansible container’s tool and then a comparison of both. It was hold by Tomas Tomecek from Red Hat’s containerization team. The Dockerfile…

César BEREZOWSKI

By César BEREZOWSKI

Oct 25, 2017

Nobody* puts Java in a Container

Nobody* puts Java in a Container

Categories: Containers Orchestration, Open Source Summit Europe 2017, Infrastructure | Tags: cgroups, Java, JRE, JVM, Namespaces, Docker

This talk was about the issues of putting Java in a container and how, in its latest version, the JDK is now more aware of the container it is running in. The presentation is led by Joerg Schad…

Paul-Adrien CORDONNIER

By Paul-Adrien CORDONNIER

Oct 28, 2017

MariaDB integration with Hadoop

MariaDB integration with Hadoop

Categories: Infrastructure | Tags: Database, HA, MariaDB, Hadoop, Hive

During a workshop with one of our customers, Adaltas has identified a potential risk to use MariaDB’s High Availability (HA) strategy. Since the customer selected Cloudera’s CDH 5 distribution, the…

David WORMS

By David WORMS

Jul 31, 2017

Managing authorizations with Apache Sentry

Managing authorizations with Apache Sentry

Categories: Data Governance | Tags: Hue, Database, LDAP, Nikita, Sentry, Ansible, CDH, Deployment, IaC

Apache Sentry is a system for enforcing fine grained role based authorization to data and metadata stored on a Hadoop cluster. With this article, we will show you how we are using Apache Sentry at…

Axel JACQIN

By Axel JACQIN

Jul 24, 2017

Cloudera Sessions Paris 2017

Cloudera Sessions Paris 2017

Categories: Big Data, Events | Tags: Altus, CDSW, SDX, EC2, Azure, Cloudera, CDH, Data Science, PaaS, Python

Adaltas was at the Cloudera Sessions on October 5, where Cloudera showcased their new products and offerings. Below you’ll find a summary of what we witnessed. Note: the information were aggregated in…

César BEREZOWSKI

By César BEREZOWSKI

Oct 16, 2017

Yahoo's Vespa Engine

Yahoo's Vespa Engine

Categories: Tech Radar | Tags: Database, Tools, Elasticsearch, Search Engine

Vespa is Yahoo’s fully autonomous and self-sufficient big data processing and serving engine. It aims at serving results of queries on huge amounts of data in real time. An example of this would be…

Arthur BUSSER

By Arthur BUSSER

Oct 16, 2017

Exposing Kafka on two different networks

Exposing Kafka on two different networks

Categories: Infrastructure | Tags: Cyber Security, VLAN, Kafka, Cloudera, CDH, Network

A Big Data setup usually requires you to have multiple networking interface, let’s see how to set up Kafka on more than one of them. Kafka is a open-source stream processing software platform system…

César BEREZOWSKI

By César BEREZOWSKI

Jul 22, 2017

Oracle DB synchrnozation to Hadoop with CDC

Oracle DB synchrnozation to Hadoop with CDC

Categories: Data Engineering | Tags: CDC, GoldenGate, Oracle, Hive, Sqoop, Data Warehouse

This note is the result of a discussion about the synchronization of data written in a database to a warehouse stored in Hadoop. Thanks to Claude Daub from GFI who wrote it and who authorizes us to…

David WORMS

By David WORMS

Jul 13, 2017

Change Ambari's topbar color

Change Ambari's topbar color

Categories: Big Data, Hack | Tags: Ambari, Front-end

We recently had a client that has multiple environments (Production, Integration, Testing, …) running on HDP and managed using one Ambari instance per cluster. One of the questions that came up was…

César BEREZOWSKI

By César BEREZOWSKI

Jul 9, 2017

MiNiFi: Data at Scales & the Values of Starting Small

MiNiFi: Data at Scales & the Values of Starting Small

Categories: Big Data, DevOps & SRE, Infrastructure | Tags: MiNiFi, NiFi, C++, HDF, Cloudera, HDP, IOT

This conference presented rapidly Apache NiFi and explained where MiNiFi came from: basically it’s a NiFi minimal agent to deploy on small devices to bring data to a cluster’s NiFi pipeline (ex: IoT…

César BEREZOWSKI

By César BEREZOWSKI

Jul 8, 2017

Advanced multi-tenant Hadoop and Zookeeper protection

Advanced multi-tenant Hadoop and Zookeeper protection

Categories: Big Data, Infrastructure | Tags: DoS, iptables, Operation, Scalability, Zookeeper, Clustering, Consensus

Zookeeper is a critical component to Hadoop’s high availability operation. The latter protects itself by limiting the number of maximum connections (maxConns = 400). However Zookeeper does not protect…

Pierre SAUVAGE

By Pierre SAUVAGE

Jul 5, 2017

HDP cluster monitoring

HDP cluster monitoring

Categories: Big Data, DevOps & SRE, Infrastructure | Tags: Alert, Ambari, Metrics, Monitoring, HDP, Python, REST

With the current growth of BigData technologies, more and more companies are building their own clusters in hope to get some value of their data. One main concern while building these infrastructures…

Joris RUMMENS

By Joris RUMMENS

Jul 5, 2017

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