B03. DBOps (Database Operations)
Everyone in IT is talking about DevOps and its derivatives: DevSecOps, SysOps, GitOps… and other Ops’es, but rarely anyone mentions good old databases in that context. Especially the ones with decades on their backs which just happen to work (TM) so no need to “Ops” them, right? Nope! Despite relational databases having a good track record of being up&runing (most of them, anyway) and having all the necessary tooling to develop and support the data sources underpinning even the most critical IT systems they seldom integrate fast and well into contemporary platforms and methodologies such as Kubernetes and DevOps.
Perhaps RDBMS’es don’t age as well as everyone thought? How do we change that? Enter DbOps! Even though the term is not new it didn’t gain as much traction as its better known counterparts. That’s even more true when it comes to RDBMS giants dating back to the early *nix days such as Informix. Not having a huge palette of integration points with other software to start with it’s still possible (and pretty simple too) to bring it on par with other modern DB systems – we’ve done it using Puppet/Bolt and Gitlab and we’ll show you how…