Why this argument keeps happening If you have ever heard one teammate say resource requests feel hacky while another insists you must set requests, both reactions make sense. Developer pain and platform pain rarely show up in the same dashboard at the same time, so it is easy to talk past each other. Developers feel […]
In this blog, I will guide you on: How do you enable application performance monitoring (APM)? How do you scale a user application based on application metrics with a Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA)? How do you create an alert based on application metrics and send this alert to an external system? For the monitoring, I […]
By Robert Baumgartner, Red Hat Austria, July 2025 (OpenShift 4.17, OpenShift Logging 6.1) In the dynamic world of containerized applications and orchestrators like OpenShift, traditional logging approaches often fall short. Unlike static virtual machines or bare-metal servers where logs might reside in predictable file paths on a stable host, containers are ephemeral by nature. They […]
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Deploying and managing robust, scalable web services is essential in today’s cloud-driven environments. Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Image Mode provides an innovative approach, combining the simplicity and agility of container-based deployments with the robustness and reliability of traditional virtual machine instances on AWS. In this blog post, we will guide you through leveraging RHEL […]
In the last several months we have seen security concerns are raised more and more. Volatility has become the new curse word. Companies are refocusing their efforts to an on premise data center. See here how confidential computing can help to implement and use case based usage of the public cloud with confidential computing as […]
The size of container images plays an essential role in various aspects, not just the amount of storage space used in the Container Registry. In this article, we will explore why optimizing container image size matters and how to achieve it effectively. Oftentimes we have applications whose binaries are quite small but whose container images […]
More and more companies reevaluate their presence in the cloud and the on-premise data center. And some who pledged to move most of it or even all of it into the cloud have seen that it is not one or the other it is a mixture of both. To read up on why I think […]
Image generated with Dall-E: Modern data center surrounded by nature, with wind turbines, solar panels, and greenery, emphasizing eco-friendly technology and clean energy. Introduction The digital revolution has transformed our world, but at what cost to our environment? Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from data centers have already surpassed those of the global airline industry and […]
This blog post provides a detailed look at using TCP for log forwarding, leveraging custom handlers, and managing container-specific logs. Everything is also documented in this Github repository: https://github.com/marcoklaassen/jboss-eap-rsyslog. Centralized logging is essential for monitoring and troubleshooting in distributed enterprise systems. JBoss EAP, a robust application server platform, can integrate seamlessly with rsyslog for centralized […]