Doug Ortiz

Senior Postgres DevOps Engineer, EDB

Doug Ortiz is a technologist with extensive experience in architecting, developing, migrating, and modernizing applications between on-premise and cloud platforms. He has worked with many different technologies including AWS, Azure, GCP, IaaC, Big Data, Data Analytics, DevOps, Linux, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Ansible, Python, Scala and GoLang. Doug also has experience with database technologies such as PostgreSQL, Neo4J, MySQL, and SQL Server.

Currently at his role as a Senior Postgres DevOps Engineer many of his projects encompass Architecture, Design, Software Development, Tool Development, Infrastructure As Code, Script Automation, Blogging, Public Speaking, and Benchmarking.

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Managing Data Changes to your PostgreSQL Database with Liquibase

Liquibase lets you track and version database schema changes, and deploy database code with the velocity to match your application code. Liquibase is available in multiple editions: community (free), pro, business, and enterprise.
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Control Who Accesses Your Cloud with IP Allow Lists in BigAnimal

With IP allow lists, you now have added flexibility when managing database connections from the Internet and can allow your teammates to connect from home without exposing your database to the entire Internet.
Postgres Tutorials

How to Create a Template for edb-ansible Scripts in Ansible Tower

In the conclusion of our blog series on integrating EDB “edb-ansible” scripts with Ansible Tower, we're walking through the process of creating a template for “edb-ansible” Scripts in Ansible Tower.
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How to Use Ansible to Manage PostgreSQL: What is Ansible and Why is it Used to Manage PostgreSQL?

In this blog post, we’ll explore two questions: What is Ansible, and why is it used for managing PostgreSQL?
Product Updates

Get More Out of edb-ansible Scripts: How to Create a Template for edb-ansible Scripts in Ansible Tower

Concluding our series about integrating EDB “edb-ansible” scripts with Ansible Tower, our previous post was about: Creating “Inventories” for “edb-ansible” Scripts in Ansible Tower. In the last post of the series, we will be looking at: How to Create a “Template” for “edb-ansible” Scripts in Ansible Tower. In this blog post, we will be covering the greyed out areas in the diagram below: Based on...
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Get More Out of edb-ansible Scripts: Creating “Inventories” in Ansible Tower

Continuing our series about integrating EDB “edb-ansible” scripts with Ansible Tower v3.8.1, our previous post was about: Creating “Credentials” for “edb-ansible” Scripts in Ansible Tower. In this fourth post of the series we will be looking at: Creating “Inventories” for “edb-ansible” Scripts in Ansible Tower. In this blog post, we will be covering the greyed out areas in the diagram below: Based...
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Get More Out of edb-ansible Scripts: Creating “Credentials” in Ansible Tower

Continuing our blog series on integrating EDB “edb-ansible” scripts with Ansible Tower v3.8.1, this third post of the series will cover Creating “Credentials” for “edb-ansible” Scripts in Ansible Tower. Our previous post walked through Creating “Projects” for “edb-ansible” Scripts in Ansible Tower. We will be covering the greyed out areas in the diagram below: Based on Red Hat Ansible User guide...
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Get More Out of edb-ansible Scripts: Creating Ansible Tower Projects

As part of our never-ending quest at EDB to innovate and integrate with other products, we continue our series about integrating EDB “edb-ansible” scripts with Ansible Tower with this second blog post. In our previous post, Ansible Tower and Postgres Reference Architectures, we looked at how Ansible differs from Ansible Tower, provided a brief overview of how Ansible Tower can be utilized in...
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Ansible Tower and Postgres Reference Architectures

At EDB, we are always seeking ways to innovate and integrate with other products. In this blog post, we will be discussing the EDB Postgres Reference Architectures and deploying them using “edb-ansible” Scripts or ”edb-postgres” Ansible Collection with Redhat’s Ansible Tower.
EDB Labs

Provisioning a PostgreSQL Cluster with TerraForm and Ansible

The popularity of PostgreSQL keeps increasing day by day, newer versions, capabilities and functionalities are constantly being added and incorporated by the community. Configuring a single PostgreSQL instance in its simplest form is quick and easy but when you desire to incorporate best practices, clusters, additional nodes, security, streaming replication, failover, monitoring and management...