Quick start guide to the smallest OpenShift cluster for Windows workload

Introduction As a Solution Architect for Red Hat’s ecosystem, I talk to many independent software vendors (ISVs) about modernizing their applications to enable hybrid cloud and edge strategies. Linux, containers, Kubernetes and micro-services architecture are a default choice nowadays in many new application development projects. But sometimes you can not get rid of some dependencies […]

Cold Disaster Recovery for Kubernetes applications

Introduction Since my last exploration of the topic in mid-2021, there have been significant advancements in cold disaster recovery for applications on Kubernetes. Since then, there have been remarkable improvements in both the technical aspects and the user experience of cold disaster recovery. Notably, the Kubernetes operator that manages the technical infrastructure for cold disaster […]

Service Performance Monitoring (SPM) with Jaeger of your Own Service/Application

By Robert Baumgartner, Red Hat Austria, February 2023 (OpenShift 4.12) In this blog I will guide you on how to use service performance monitoring (SPM) with Jaeger. It should work with any application that is working with OpenTelemetry. This document is based on OpenShift 4.12. See Distributed tracing release notes. OpenShift distributed tracing platform Operator […]

The Operator Update Information Checker

By Robert Baumgartner, Red Hat Austria, March 2023 Summary Recently Red Hat has released a tool at the Customer Portal Labs that can give very detailed information about Operators and available updates, supported versions, and much more. The name of this tool is Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform Operator Update Information Checker Where to find […]

Using OSTree Native Containers as Node Base Images

Node Base Images are OCI container images that are used to deliver software updates and customizations to rpm-ostree based Linux systems running on bare metal and virtual machines, such as Fedora CoreOS, Fedora IoT, Fedora Silverblue, CentOS Stream CoreOS, RHEL CoreOS, and RHEL for Edge. Node Base Images are built with OSTree Native Containers. While application […]

Java to Pod

From Java code in your repo to a running Pod on Kubernetes. This article explains all the steps needed, including basic shortcuts.

KubeCon Trip Report

As a computer scientist, I think the best thing about our job is clearly the need to keep up with the latest technological achievements. Depending on the specific area you work in, you can actually always be sure that the solutions to challenges are constantly changing. Kubernetes is no different in that regard. Let’s find […]

Building Trust in the Software Supply Chain

Overview What steps can we take to establish trust in our Software Supply Chain and ensure that our software can be traced back to its origin without introducing malicious code or dependencies? Moreover, how can we integrate Open Source tools to enhance the security of our Software Supply Chain’s lifecycle? As we explained in our […]

Using OpenTelemetry and Grafana Tempo with Your Own Services/Application

By Robert Baumgartner, Red Hat Austria, March 2023 (OpenShift 4.12, OpenShift distributed tracing data collection 0.63) In this blog, I will guide you on how to use OpenTelemetry with a Quarkus application; how to forward your OpenTelemetry information to Tempo and display it in Grafana UI. I will use distributed tracing to instrument my services […]

As time passes, our IT World is continuously changing…

10 years ago companies were desperately trying to implement new technologies to manage and operate their virtual machines.  They do so with some kind of “Multi Cloud Management Software” or with a managed tool from a hypervisor of their choice at the time being, like vCenter from VMware. There was also a nice software in […]

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