Agentic Coding
As this is my first newsletter of 2026, I would like to wish you all a Happy New Year! For
Using the LINSTOR Python API to Interface with LINSTOR Clusters in Kubernetes
Introduction to the LINSTOR APIs One of the most notable but easily overlooked features in LINSTOR® is its REST API.
Exploring Homelabbing & Open Source Innovations
With a decent covering of snow on the ground here finally, and the end-of-year holiday season approaching, I’ve been thinking
Reducing DRBD Memory Requirements
Over its more than 20 years of existence, DRBD® has earned some renown as data replication software with high performance.
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Software Roadmap News
This week, I want to share an update on LINBIT’s GUI for LINSTOR clusters. Since the recently released version 2.0, it nicely embeds Grapha graphs
DRBD is a Great Fit for Hyperscalers
As we designed DRBD for applications with demanding I/O requirements, it is a perfect fit for databases. So it is not surprising that a global
Dynamically Creating HA Persistent Volumes in Kubernetes by Using LINSTOR
If you need to run stateful applications and workloads in Kubernetes, you will need to make use of Kubernetes persistent volumes. Although Kubernetes might be
Exciting New DRBD Features
DRBD 9.2.16 and 9.3 are being released. While 9.2.16 is the boring bugfix release, drbd-9.3 brings exciting new features. The newest DRBD update now supports
Comparing Open Source Virtualization Platforms
More and more, businesses and companies are seeking to repatriate services and infrastructure from the cloud to on-premise or hybrid solutions. This might be for
Kubernetes Roundup – LINSTOR Updates, RWX, & Events
This edition of the LINBIT Kubernetes newsletter begins with some big software news. We recently released LINSTOR Operator 2.10.0 (and a follow-up bug fix: LINSTOR
Securing the LINSTOR Encryption Passphrase By Using systemd-creds and TPM 2.0
Before version 1.33.0, LINSTORⓇ did not have a method of entering the LINSTOR controller service master passphrase when the service was restarted unless it was
Controlling LINSTOR Replica Placement During Node Evacuation
When maintaining or decommissioning a group of nodes in a LINSTORⓇ cluster, it’s common to use the linstor node evacuate command to automatically relocate resources from one
Create a Highly Available iSCSI Target Using a LINSTOR Gateway Cluster
This tutorial will teach you how to set up a highly available iSCSI target by using LINSTOR® Gateway. Here is the ideal starting point to
Creating ReadWriteMany Persistent Volumes in Kubernetes by using LINSTOR
With the release of LINSTORⓇ operator 2.10.0 for Kubernetes, users can create ReadWriteMany (RWX) Persistent Volume Claims (PVCs) directly using the LINSTOR CSI driver. This
Homelabbing LINBIT Storage Solutions
One of the benefits of using open source software such as the storage solutions that the LINBIT® team develops is that you do not need
How to Setup LINSTOR on Proxmox VE
Authors: Ryan Ronnander & Roland Kammerer — In this technical blog post, I will show you how to integrate the open source software-defined storage (SDS)
Setting Up Highly Available Storage for Proxmox Using LINSTOR & the LINBIT GUI
This article is a companion article to “How to Setup LINSTOR on Proxmox VE”. Instructions in this article will guide you through installing and integrating LINSTOR®
Implementing Disaster Recovery for Proxmox VE with a Stretched LINSTOR Cluster
In this blog, you will delve into the necessary steps and settings for creating a stretched LINSTOR® cluster to provide disaster recovery (DR) capabilities for
AWS Outage & LINBIT Software Updates for Kubernetes
We recently witnessed an AWS outage. I then saw an article that called for European digital sovereignty in the context of the outage, but those
LINBIT CEO & Developers to Present at CloudStack and Kubernetes Focused Conferences
Members of the LINBIT® team will speak at upcoming conferences, focused around cloud, virtualization, containerization, and orchestration technologies. LINBIT CEO and DRBD® creator, Philipp Reisner,
