I’ve previously discussed Restic in the article “Backup storage for thousands of virtual machines using free tools,” and it remains my favorite backup tool since then.

Today, I will describe a ready-made recipe for setting up effective backup from Stdin, with deduplication and automatic cleaning of the repository from old copies.

Despite Restic being great for saving entire data directories, this article emphasizes on-the-fly backup from Stdin, typically for virtual machine backups, databases, and other large-file data that can be sequentially read and immediately sent to the backup system.

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Building a fast and universal driver with clustered LVM and the QCOW2 for using any SAN-like storage system in K8s.

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Hardware virtualization is one of the most important and fundamental technologies in the field of cloud computing. Without it, no “device” inside virtual machines would be able to function, including network cards, disks, keyboards, mice, and so on. In this article, we will trace the development of hardware virtualization technologies in Linux.

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An open-source storage from LINBIT (maintainers of DRBD). It’s fast and fault-tolerant, has a lot of features. It looks like Kuberentes but for block devices. How does it work? How to configure and debug it?

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Over the past few years, we at Flant have been keeping a close eye on the technology leaders in the cloud-native space. But it’s more than merely a matter of curiosity — we have incorporated the ideas we got from them to create something new and exciting that would offer people a lot of value, which we would be pleased to share with you today. We present to you the new virtualization system we’ve recently introduced in the latest Deckhouse release (1.43).

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(especially for Deckhouse platform)

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Short abstract When choosing KubeVirt as our main virtualization solution, we were unsatisfied with the existing networking implementation. We developed and contributed some enhancements to simplify the design and get the most performance out of the network using KubeVirt.

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