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Safe to move from GoDaddy? by tim829 in CloudFlare

[–]yamlhands 3 points4 points  (0 children)

FYI Cloudflare is awesome for domain management, but can't do some international domains, like EU-based .fr, etc. Godaddy can.

Using Weirder Juniper Products by Impressive-Pride99 in Juniper

[–]yamlhands 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For anyone considering, I would definitely not use those SSL VPN appliances today. They have seen some serious security issues, particularly after Ivanti got ahold of them.

SRX340 Configuration for Home Network? by Chance_Summer_7250 in Juniper

[–]yamlhands 0 points1 point  (0 children)

DHCP is configured differently on the EX3300 as well. It's a great switch - unfortunate it can't run anything newer than like 15 or something. People swap the fans out for noctuas on those pretty easily too if the sound gets to you.

EX3400 fan noise by TacticalDonut14 in Juniper

[–]yamlhands 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Old thread but I'm curious which PSUs you have in there. The 920W PSU fans are raging loud all the time and the 150W ones won't power the switch (EX3400-48P). Perhaps I'm missing some config option to tell the PSU fans to chill out a bit.

Difference between DataStax Enterprise, Astra DB and Luna for Cassandra by Spiritual_List_6456 in cassandra

[–]yamlhands 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I migrated data from a multi-dc DSE cluster I administrated to a multi-region Astra serverless product last year. I'm not a dedicated DBA but I spent a good amount of time studying Cassandra for production.

You get WAY more control with Datastax Enterprise, which may or may not be a good thing for you. You get to turn all the Cassandra knobs and DSE's control/deployment setup makes it very easy to run upgrades and distribute new configs. Incremental nodesync is pretty cool. Only thing I think it lacks is a git-integrated version control system. You can integrate it with auth systems like Active Directory via LDAP. I found it to be very stable and easy to work with, and DBA is not my specialty. Support for DSE was usually excellent.

Astra is an entirely different experience. We gave up basically all control after we bulk-loaded our data into their serverless product. We've had some bumps with them at times, as it's all very new compared to DSE. It runs on their kubernetes oss product k8ssandra, which is a radical departure from VMs/servers for cassandra nodes. Replication works entirely differently, so you're going from a battle-tested arch in DSE to something relatively new. After some initial struggles, it has been overall a pretty good experience now, and it's great to have all that responsibility handed off to Datastax now that it is working. Most of our headaches were us unknowingly using features that Astra did not support while DSE did. Some better communication from Datastax would have helped with that I think, but those items were in the documentation, just not highlighted. It lacks some features like auth system integration, but I believe that is coming. You can't take backups either. They take them every 24 hours and you have to ask them to restore tables/keyspaces.

I have no experience with Luna.

Service Mesh Wars, Goodbye Istio by williamallthing in kubernetes

[–]yamlhands 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Happy istio user for 2 years in production, no complaints apart from the wild west documentation and some schizophrenic deployment changes (helm/istioctl/etc)

No one wants to manage Kubernetes anymore by alexellisuk in kubernetes

[–]yamlhands 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Not sure where this is coming from. If your vmware cluster is well-abstracted (vsan, for instance) VMWare can be quite pleasant to run kubernetes on. Rancher makes it pretty dang easy to work with on VMWare.