Introduction Back in May of 2020, Red Hat and Amazon Web Services announced a jointly supported, fully managed Red Hat OpenShift offering that is natively integrated into AWS. Since the announcement in November of 2020, customers had the opportunity to get their hands on the preview version of Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA). […]
Category: Kubernetes
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 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 […]
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 […]
In OpenShift, networking is equally simple from a container point of view. Within the container’s namespace there is a eth0 network interface configured and services such as DNS just work. You can still use dedicated NICs on the host to isolate specific types of traffic. What’s the difference? It turns out there is hardly any […]
From a container point of view, networking on a plain Docker Host is simple. A running container is nothing more than a Linux process which is namespaced and constrained with regards to access (SELinux) and resource consumption (cgroups). In each namespace, there is a single (virtual) network interface called eth0 which is assigned an IP […]
Since mid of December 2015, Red Hat has released the initial version of the Fuse Integration Services. These are various pre-build images which are aimed to make the implementation of Red Hat JBoss Fuse applications on OpenShift V3 as seamless as possible. In this blog I will document the steps required to create a first […]