Always on Availability Groups for SQL Server containers on Kubernetes – The DH2i's DxOperator way!!


Recently, I had the privilege of presenting with OJ Ngo from DH2i, our partners who offer the cluster stack for SQL Server on Windows, Linux and containers, at PASS Data Community Summit 2023. In this session, we revealed the private preview of the DxOperator!! – A simple and effective option to deploy SQL Server containers with availability groups configured in high availability mode, with DxEnterprise cluster stack, all deployed on Kubernetes platform.

 

Prerequisites A Kubernetes cluster to deploy SQL Server instances. For this demo, I am using Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster. A client machine to run the kubectl