Welcome to the Age of Automation

The current situation At the moment 2 focus areas prevail in the IT industry. Flexibility In the age of ever-changing customer preferences, flexibility is an important asset. It is about providing customers with new opportunities to realize their goals. And to provide ease of use, ease of integration with existing processes and systems while doing […]

Full Stack Cloud Native Application: A Feedback Form

Introduction This article is a step by step example, how to develop, build and deploy a cloud native application with its infrastructure components. This cloud native application uses OpenShift as the underlying application platform with following features:  The use case is a feedback form, where users can give their feedback. The repositories for this application […]

Approaching the Kubernetes Bridge – Multi-container Apps with Rootless Podman

In the year 2023 we celebrate the 10th anniversary of Docker and the 9th anniversary of Kubernetes. Container technology has now become mainstream. But recent advances in the Podman ecosystem prove that innovation in the container world is still happening at a strong pace. Podman 4 was released in February 2022 and brought considerable improvements […]

A little bit of security is what I want

A quick tour of how a Kubernetes Management Platform like Red Hat OpenShift can help to ease developers day to day work and ensure security at the same time

Review of 2022

OpenSourcerers 2022 is a wrap! It was packed with interesting articles covering a wide range of topics. There are 52 articles available covering high level topics down to the dirty technical details of using Red Hat’s products and other OpenSource technologies. Your Opensourcerers blog editors followed along of course! As we come from varying backgrounds […]

Using Quarkus to develop a multiplayer game – Chapter #2 – The server feeds the client

Quarkus is a fantastic Java runtime environment and framework. Read this article to learn how easy it is to use Quarkus to create the server part of a multi player game (with a JavaScript client, running in a browser). Learn how to easily integrate Apache Kafka, WebSockets, a database, Qute templating for reporting etc. This is part TWO of a multi part article series.

Configuring custom domains for applications – the operator-way!

On a rainy Thursday evening, I was looking at a lemon tree and the lengthy URL of an application that I deployed some time ago on my OpenShift cluster. And I was wondering how I can make it shorter and human readable. Creating an edge route with a custom certificate is rather simple [1]. However, […]

How often do you patch ?

Historically, there have been two schools of thought about patching: Patch as soon as a patch is available to eliminate security risks versus testing the patch extensively before it is applied to production systems ( aka “Never change a running system” ). One of the main reasons why you might feel the need to patch […]

Deliver: Publish your own Operator with Operator Lifecycle Manager and the OpenShift Operator Catalog (4/4)

In Part 4 of our blog series “You’ve written a Kubernetes-native Application? Here is how OpenShift helps you to run, develop, build and deliver it”, we will explain how to deploy our own operator for our sample app “Local News” to OpenShift. The focus of this article is not so much on the development of […]

Securing the integrity of Software Supply Chains

Overview How can we secure the integrity of our Software Supply Chains and have confidence that our software has not been tampered with and can be traced to its source? Which are the main parts of the software supply chain security? Before explaining how to secure the Software Supply Chain, we need first to understand […]

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