Create Rubrik SLAs from a CSV File

If you own a Brik, you are familiar with creating new SLAs as it is one of the first things you would do after getting a Brik deployed.

In the world of Rubrik, everything is build around Service Level Agreements. With Rubrik’s unique approach to use SLAs for Backup and Recovery tasks, we have dramatically simplified the Backup Admin’s daily work. Traditionally a Backup Admin would create multiple backup jobs for full, incremental, hourly, daily, weekly, monthly and yearly backups. Additionally the backup admin would create some archival and replication jobs. With Rubrik’s SLA approach all of this can done within a single SLA and dramatically simplify the operational overhead associated with backup jobs.

Sometimes, a single or even a handful of SLAs might not be enough. In this case using the Rubrik interface becomes time-consuming. Luckily Rubrik has an API-First Architecture which means everything you can do in the GUI, can also be done via the APIs.

To make Rubrik’s API even easier to digest, we have a build-in API Explorer. You can get access to it via https:///docs/v1/playground

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Running Usenet Stack on Kubernetes

Some of the most common applications in a Usenet Stack are SABnzbd, Sonarr and Radarr. SABnzbd is a binary newsreader which handles download from Usenet. Sonarr acts a PVR for TV shows and Radarr is a fork of Sonarr is a PVR for Movies. This post will show to deploy a Usenet Stack on Kubernetes

I recently helped out a friend to get these apps deployed on Kubernetes and I published the YAML files. You can find the files on my Github repo but I will share them further down as well.

 

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Kubernetes with Mixed CPU Architecture

Creating a Raspberry Pi Kubernetes cluster is straight forward, however it becomes more complicated when you want to mix and match kubernetes nodes of different CPU architectures.

I recently deployed a new Kubernetes cluster in my home lab which initially consisted of two Ubuntu nodes running kubeadm and are  VMs on VMware ESXi. Last night I tried to add a Raspberry Pi  and ran into a couple of issues which I resolved and describe further down to save you some time.

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Pipedrive and Zendesk Integration

If your Customer Service System and your Sales CRM are separated it is important to integrate the systems. Without a proper integration either your Sales or Customer Service team might be missing important informations. This free Pipedrive and Zendesk integration will help you solve this issue.

Recently I had to use Zendesk as our customer success system and Pipedrive as our Sales CRM. I have worked with Salesforce for the past 6-8 years and love it. Moving to Zendesk and Pipedrive was quiet a bit of change for me. While these two systems are cheaper than Salesforce they do have a couple of drawbacks. When I started out with both systems I was looking for a Pipedrive and Zendesk integration and came across the official Pipedrive plugin for Zendesk. Read More