Automatically update containers with podman-auto-update

Photo by Timelab on Unsplash In this tutorial I will show you how to configure automatic updates for containers in rootless Podman environments and how systemd manages these containers as services. The tutorial is divided into the following sections: If you are not interested in the possible use cases and would rather start right away, […]

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 […]

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.

OpenShift Local or Single Node OpenShift

Are you a developer or just a curious individual who wants to dip their toes in the Cloud, but are not sure whether to go for OpenShift Local or Single Node OpenShift? You’ve come to the right place. In this article, I will explore the differences and similarities between these two variants of OpenShift, so […]

Kubernetes is a Platform for building Platforms

Kelsey Hightower stated already in 2017, that Kubernetes is not a Platform by itself, but rather a better way to start to build a platform. But what does that really mean? From my point of view, this means that Kubernetes is a platform that provides a core abstraction- and Service  layer for cloud-native applications to […]

Monitoring Camel with Prometheus in Red Hat OpenShift

This walk-through example will encourage you to build an Apache Camel application from scratch, deploy it in a Kubernetes environment, gather metrics using Prometheus and display them in Grafana. Monitoring will automatically adjust when the system scales up or down. Table of Contents Introduction About Prometheus To-Do overview Scraping data The application Enabling Prometheus Enabling […]

OPENSHIFT NETWORKING FROM A CONTAINER/WORKLOAD POINT OF VIEW – PART 6: CONTROLLING EGRESS TRAFFIC

OpenShift 3.3 and later contain the functionality to route pod traffic to the external world via a well-defined IP address. This is useful for example if your external services are protected using a firewall and you do not want to open the firewall to all cluster nodes. The way it works is that a egress […]

OPENSHIFT NETWORKING FROM A CONTAINER/WORKLOAD POINT OF VIEW – PART 5: OPENSHIFT ROUTER

In the OpenShift world, Services take place on the OSI Layer 3 / IP, while Routing is an OSI Layer 7 / HTTP/TLS concept. Once you’ve wrapped your head around this backwards choice of naming, things are fairly easy: An OpenShift Router is a component which listens on a physical host’s HTTP/S ports for incoming […]

OPENSHIFT NETWORKING FROM A CONTAINER/WORKLOAD POINT OF VIEW – PART 4: CONTAINER NETWORKING USING OPENSHIFT/KUBERNETES SERVICES

To allow stable endpoints in an environment of ever changing starting and stopping Pods (and therefore constantly changing IP addresses), Kubernetes introduces (and OpenShift uses) the concept of services. Services are stable IP addresses (taken per default from the 172.30.0.0/16 subnet) that remain the same as long as the service exists. Connection requests to a […]

OPENSHIFT NETWORKING FROM A CONTAINER/WORKLOAD POINT OF VIEW – PART 3: CONTAINER NETWORKING ACROSS OPENSHIFT NODES

So far, this sounds like a lot of effort to achieve a little more than a plain docker host – containers that can talk to each other and to the host network, potentially segregated based on kubernetes namespace. However OpenShift SDN also allows pods on different nodes to communicate with each other. To this end, […]

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