The Linux Academy Blog
Practical guides for cloud, DevOps & data engineers
Hands-on walkthroughs on the tools we teach — CI/CD, streaming, observability, databases and cloud. Written to get you productive, then point you to a free course to go deeper.
PostgreSQL Installation & Administration: Linux, Docker & Kubernetes
Install and operate PostgreSQL on Linux, Docker, and Kubernetes, then master roles, backups (pg_dump & PITR), replication, VACUUM, and query tuning — with a full example and troubleshooting.
MySQL Installation & Administration: Linux, Docker & Kubernetes
Install and run MySQL three ways — Linux, Docker, Kubernetes — then the day-to-day admin: users, backups & restores, replication, tuning, and the errors every DBA hits, with fixes.
Deploy & Operate ClickHouse on Kubernetes with the Altinity Operator
Run ClickHouse — the blazing-fast analytics database — on Kubernetes with the Altinity Operator: shards, replicas, Keeper, persistent storage, a worked cluster, backups, scaling and troubleshooting.