Find out more about our Cloud Native platform:
| Resource | Description | Author |
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| This Helm chart can be used to deploy an entire HPCC environment to a K8s cluster. | HPCC Systems Platform Team | |
| HPCC Local (host) storage | HPCC Systems Platform Team | |
| Helm Chart Examples Repository | Includes examples for a number of different areas such as Azure Storage, Cert Manager, Logging, Metrics, Secrets Storage Planes and more. | HPCC Systems Platform Team |
| Running HPCC Systems on Microsoft Hyper-V | If you are a PC user and want to run the HPCC Systems Platform, the simplest and most natural environment may be to use a Hyper-V Virtual Machine. Hyper-V is standard on many versions of Windows, and tends to work better than most add-on virtualization systems. It also has good support for multiple CPUs, and is quite reliable and performant. | Lili Xu Software Engineer III LexisNexis® Risk Solutions Group |
| Cloud Cost Savings using ECL Watch | Learn about the most efficient ways to track and trend cloud usage costs, as well as how to set configuration parameters. | Shamser Ahmed Senior Consulting Software Engineer LexisNexis® Risk Solutions Group |
| Optimising the Cloud Operation Cost of HPCC Systems using Azure Spot Instances | Processing data on the cloud using Virtual Machines can be expensive. Read about the results of some research carried out by Roshan Bhandari about how to save a considerable amount of money by running your VM using Azure Spot instances. | Roshan Bhandari |
| Developing and Training a GNN Model on Azure | In today’s world, security in our schools is critical for a healthy learning environment. The need for that security has inspired a High School student to design a facial recognition interface using HPCC Systems GNN bundle, to identify these potential threats by utilizing the camera built into the school’s security robot. | Carina Wang |
Getting Started with the HPCC Systems Cloud Native Platform Using Terraform and Azure | Includes step-by-step instructions, showing how to deploy the HPCC Systems Cloud Native Platform into Azure using Terraform open source and additional modules from the LexisNexis Risk Solutions Terraform open-source registry. | Godson Fortil Software Engineer I LexisNexis® Risk Solutions Group |
| Configuring a HashiCorp Vault as a Certificate Manager on HPCC Systems | The importance of certificate management and instructions for setting up and configuring a Hashicorp Vault. | Nikita Jha 2021 HPCC Systems Intern Program |
| Features new and Improved in HPCC Systems 8.2.0 Gold | HPCC Systems Cloud Native and Bare Metal users can take a tour of the highlights included in this release. | Lorraine Chapman Consulting Business Analyst LexisNexis® Risk Solutions Group |
| File Storage on the HPCC Systems Cloud Native Platform | The method of defining storage on our Cloud Native platform has been rationalized and simplified in HPCC Systems 8.2.0. This blog takes you through the new way storage is defined in the values.yaml file, providing some examples of how it can be used. | Gavin Halliday Enterprise/Lead Architect LexisNexis® Risk Solutions Group |
| Setting up a default HPCC Systems cluster on Microsoft Azure Cloud Using HPCC Systems 7.8.x and Kubernetes | Walk through the steps required to setup a default cluster on Microsoft Azure | Jake Smith Enterprise/Lead Architect LexisNexis® Risk Solutions Group |
| Persisting Data in an HPCC Systems Cloud native environment | How to persist your data and get your data on to your cluster in a cloud native environment. | Gavin Halliday Enterprise/Lead Architect LexisNexis® Risk Solutions Group |
| Configuring Storage in the Cloud Native HPCC Systems Platform | This blog provides more details about configuring storage on a cloud native HPCC Systems cluster. | Gavin Halliday Enterprise/Lead Architect LexisNexis® Risk Solutions Group |
| Importing Data into the Cloud Native HPCC Systems Platform | This blog continues the theme of storing and persisting data, focusing on how to use storage planes. | Gavin Halliday Enterprise/Lead Architect LexisNexis® Risk Solutions Group |
| Exporting Data from an HPCC Systems Bare Metal platform to our Cloud Native Platform | A tutorial style blog providing the steps to take to export files to a Kubernetes system using azure blob storage. | Gavin Halliday Enterprise/Lead Architect LexisNexis® Risk Solutions Group |
| Installing HPCC Systems with Istio on Microsoft Azure | Can we use a service mesh for internode communication within HPCC Systems? This blog provides a tutorial style guide to the answer to this question, focusing on installing a Service Mesh (specifically Istio) with HPCC Systems and making it work. | Manish Kumar Jaychand |
| Installing HPCC Systems with Linkerd on Microsoft Azure | In this tutorial style blog, Nandhini shares the steps needed to install HPCC Systems with Linkerd on Microsoft Azure. Find out more about Linkerd, which is a service mesh for Kubernetes. It makes running services easier and safer by providing runtime debugging, observability, reliability and security without requiring any changes to code. | Nandhini Velu Technology Analyst Infosys |
| HPCC Systems Logs in the Cloud -Update Nov 2021 | Log visualizations help identify, track and predict important events and trends on HPCC Systems clusters, by spotting interesting patterns and giving you visual clues which are easier to interpret than reading through the log file itself. Starting in HPCC Systems 8.0.0, a mechanism will be provided to deploy a lightweight Elastic Stack instance as a simple solution for the logs on-cloud processing challenges. In this blog, Rodrigo Pastrana walks through how to get started, view the logs, apply filter conditions and configure the Elastic Stack components. | Rodrigo Pastrana |
| Containerized HPCC Systems Platform | This book focuses on containerized deployments. The first section is about using Docker containers and Helm charts locally. The second part uses the same techniques in the cloud. | Jim DeFabia |
| What's new in HPCC Systems 7.10.0 | New features now available in both our Cloud native and bare metal HPCC Systems platforms. | Lorraine Chapman |
| What's new in HPCC Systems 7.12.0 | New features now available in both our Cloud native and bare metal HPCC Systems platforms. | Lorraine Chapman Consulting Business Analyst LexisNexis® Risk Solutions Group |
| Interns Contributing to the HPCC Systems Cloud Native Platform | Some of our Class of 2020 interns have been working on cloud specific projects, while others have added new items to their project task list which focus on setting up and testing HPCC Systems using different Cloud platforms. This blog shares the details of the valuable contributions our interns are making to this ongoing development project. | Lorraine Chapman Consulting Business Analyst LexisNexis® Risk Solutions Group |
| Leveraging and Evaluating Kubernetes Support on Microsoft Azure with the HPCC Systems Cloud Native Platform. | Yash Mishra is studying for a Masters in Computer Science at Clemson University. This summer, he joined the HPCC Systems intern program to work on a project that contributes to our ongoing cloud native platform development project. In this blog, Yash shares the results of his work focusing on cost considerations, storage and troubleshooting. | Yash Mishra Masters of Computer Science Clemson University |
| Our 'Going Cloud Native' blog series continues with this demonstration, showing how to setup and deploy an HPCC Systems Platform Cluster on the AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). This tutorial style blog is a truly collaborative effort featuring contributions from Lucas Varella who is an intern studying at the University of Santa Catarina (UFSC) in Brazil, our LexisNexis Risk Solutions Group colleagues, Hugo Watanuki and Xiaoming Wang and Akash Gheewala a Solutions Architect from Amazon Web Services. | Lucas Varella Hugo Watanuki Xiaoming Wang Akash Gheewala | |
| How to... Videos | A series of short videos providing some quick tips and tricks for completing specific tasks. | Various HPCC Systems Developers |
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| HPCC Systems Tech Talk Summer Series - Path to the Cloud Interviews | Who's in the room |
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| An interview with Richard Chapman - Part 1 Hear Richard Chapman talk about this ongoing development project | Flavio Villanustre and Richard Chapman |
| An interview with Jake Smith Jake talks about the latest developments and the challenges faced in going Cloud native with HPCC Systems | Flavio Villanustre and Jake Smith |
An interview with Gavin Halliday | Flavio Villanustre and Gavin Halliday |
An interview with Ming Wang | Flavio Villanustre and Ming Wang |
An Interview with Shamser Ahmed Shamser talks about Cloud Provisioning and the latest future development work planned for the Workunit Analysis Tool. | Flavio Villanustre and Shamser Ahmed |
An Interview with Godji Fortil Godji talks about the different types of testing taking place on our cloud native platform, including configuration, functional and performance testing. | Flavio Villanustre and Godson Fortil |
An Interview with Anthony Fishbeck Tony talks about streamlining the configuration and deployment of ESP for cloud deployment. | Flavio Villanustre and Anthony Fishbeck |
An Interview with Lorraine Chapman Lorraine talks about the contribution our Class of 2020 interns are making to our Cloud Native development project and introduces the HPCC Systems Roadmap. | Flavio Villanustre and Consulting Business Analyst LexisNexis® Risk Solutions Group |
An Interview with Richard Chapman - Part 2 Richard completes this series with an update providing the latest information about our new Cloud Native platform. | Flavio Villanustre and Richard Chapman |